Phoenix Rising

Got to rise up
from the ashes of my past
to live again
It does not matter
If it is an anxious beginning
Or a fairy tale end
Standing at the crossroad
Shedding my wings
blackened and charred
Within reach is now the bridge
that just yesterday
seemed impossibly too far
Burning high and in plain sight
is this desire, this lifelong dream
To make darkness
give way to the light
I wish you all were here
So that I could hear your
Heartbeat loud and clear
I wish I could feel your
embrace that has always
dissipated all my doubts

And all the shared fears