The Caterpillar

I sat in a field of caterpillars this weekend
I heard them called
  caterpillars
  cappertillers
  fuzzy worms
  ooh, wow!
  and eww-yuck

I sat in a field of caterpillars this weekend
I saw that some of them would become moths
  flying in the dark night to run into the halogen
  brightness of street lamps
butterflies
  to soar in brilliant colors, mate
  and die
food
  for hungry birds
and some would become something else
  transforming into something so wonderful that the mind is
  too shallow
    to comprehend

I sat in a field of caterpillars this weekend
I watched them trekking
  questing
    striving
      reaching
and I couldn't help but wonder,
  Which one am I?