Like a Phoenix I come from the ashes

Born again in a torrent of flames

Searing away the old chapters 

Engulfing them with the fiery tears that fall from my eyes

 

The ashes of my old life shift and shake

They tremble from what I have become

The tip of my beak breaks the surface

I gasp the new air, and it floods my new lungs

 

You had me trapped in what I had become 

I was the cage, myself delivered to you

You stared at me, touched me and ran your words through my head

They kept running day and night, I could not forget

 

But then the tears started to flow

In rivers they tore down my face

With no damn to stop them they drowned me in my cage

The fiery water filled me full

 

That's when I started to burn

You were afraid you lit a match to my skin

You tried to save me

But you weren't really trying to save me.

 

You wanted me to stare at you again

Wanted me to listen to the words you liked to spin for me

You wanted an animal 

One who would pretend to care for you

 

I was no longer my cage

I was the word free

I was the Phoenix

I escaped you

 

No more was I the one cowering from your touch

I was the one flying to the heavens 

No longer afraid of the heat

I soared to the sun and did not burn

 

I had burned before

Purged my soul

And now I see in the distance the glint of wings

I see others like me

 

There you sit on the ground 

Tears of water streaming down your face

Screaming to the world but,

You cannot burn