Phoenix

I am Phoenix

This life comes to it's inevitable conclusion.

I prepare for it to pass.

I burn.

My heart, broken wide open.

My finances, collapsed.

My head empties of the past.

Death is imminent.

I embrace it.

I slumber in my ashes.

Gather strength,

Courage.

The wind comes.

The ashes of old disperse.

A fledging remains.

Not blind.

Not ignorant.

Fresh,

New,

Clean.

I rebuild.

Still me,

My core, my power.

Time is meaningless,

In the void of rebirth.

My next life is founded upon,

Love

Honor

Peace

Joy.

I am made whole.

I am not a poet by any stretch of the imagination, but occasionally the muse slaps me upside the head and one spills out.