Does anybody know what this is?

[Nave]

My abode is a cave I cannot crawl out of;
But one day, I’ll dispose of it as a caterpillar eats its leaf.
I hop, hop, hop away from the heat.
I need dark like a flower needs light.
I grow alone and have the chance of forever being
Enclosed.
Maybe one day I will escape and fly to freedom,
When I can tolerate being exposed to the sun,
Which I suppose feels like the heat that chases me.

Confuses me

Possible answers:

cicada in the ground
A bird in an egg.
Catipillar when transforming to butterfly

[Ad Bot]

[Lugnut]

Poem.
About squirrels
And butterflies
But mainly butterflies.

[Nave]

Poem.
About squirrels
And butterflies
But mainly butterflies.

Its a riddle poem so it only has one answer

[Funnelcakes]

It's a catipilar, which is dreaming of being a bunny rabit

[Lugnut]

Rocks
And volcanoes

[MegaScientifical]

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I tǶink that's it... Nah...

[Dread]

A bird in an egg.

[Nave]

I was thinking a cicada in the ground.

[Dread]

I could see that as the answer as well.

You should update the OP with a list of logical possibilities until we figure out what it actually is.

[Nave]

I could see that as the answer as well.

You should update the OP with a list of logical possibilities until we figure out what it actually is.

done

[Joker Card]

A bat. Needs darkness, lives in a cave, Dreaming of toleration to sunlight, its a loving bat.

[Visage]

An emo kid.