Natura Docet - Nature Teaches

For the last couple of weeks I have had a concept in my head that I've been meaning to express in poetry but am still churning it somewhere up there, and am a little bit stuck with translating it into words. Basically I have been thinking about the difference between Change ("the act, process or result of altering or modifying/the replacing of one thing for another, substitution/a transformation or transition from one state, condition or phase to another" synonyms: alteration, mutation, distortion, remodeling, diversification) and Growth ("the process of growing/full development, maturity/development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form, evolution" synonyms: advancement, improvement, enrichment, furtherance, progress). I guess what I am striving for is the idea that Growth is a progression of wholesome fruitful continuous and inside-out births of things new coming from the falling and absorbing into fertile ground of things old, a process where what is behind is not just archived or covered up with something new, but it is acknowledged and used to improve what is ahead. I thought about butterflies and the fascinating way in which they grow from caterpillars. It's a process, not a change of mask. As for me, I want to grow, my soul and mind in tune with my ever increasing grey hair! May I keep off superficial change, new facades, big words and layers of "newness" to cover up a broken core of the old me. The truth is ALWAYS better than a pretty lie.