Phoenix

Here is my rise from the ashes of a love

That had burnt me in all my essence.

Here is the torn shell of fear

Dead and disremembered forever.

Here I drink to death for it is the thought of it

That brings joy to my living.

I am alive as the sunlight

Cast on the walls of this expeditious city.

I breathe in the air with hope and blow a kiss

To the people who do not heed my sprightly smiles.

I flap my wings with faith and rise to sing

To all the walking dead: “Come alive, come alive!”

Here is my rise in a poem

On the white sheets of this blue book

 As my body rises from the sheets

 Of your bed fulfilled and divine.

Here I greet the shimmer in your eyes

 And bid farewell to fears. 

I shall walk without fear on the air

 And all the five elements

For I imagine you watching me

 And hear your wings flapping next to mine.

Here I shall fly fearlessly forever.