Degradation, humiliation, pain

Spiked anger arrows aim

Pierce cringing heart

Silence echoes

Alone

Timid Murmur

Hope reawakening

Bud unfolds silk petals

Leaves release toward sun

Virgin beginning of life beckons

Resurrection, Renewal, Renaissance

Born again

Into the world

That chewed you up

And spat you out.

Again you must

Find your way

In a new place

A new place.

Leaving and Coming

Find what you mean

And starting again

This Rebirth.

You left me,

and my heart sputtered once and died.

Collapsed into itself and burst in to flames.

The scent of that betrayal lingered,

clinging to my skin like ink.

Ink that painted pictures that nobody could see,

inside of me.

Ashes, ashes,

the walls fell down.

The basement of my soul

littered with the charred remains.

In disarray I found myself,

Hidden in the fractured wreckage,

and willed myself to love again.

Transcended like that mythic bird of lore.

Bade my heart to heave the burdens of the past

And then my love, it was reborn at last.

Existing upon the oneness of the universe

Complete, yet diverse

Entering the physical world, which is the cutting edge of creation

Experiencing life with multiple senses in this incarnation

Assuming the roles of ancient obligations

While searching for explanations and inspirations

Creating an evolution of philosophies and innovations

While making progress toward universal recognition

Attempting to complete the entire journey

While longing to return to the universal sea

I’m waking up from

A previous death,

I’ll spread my wings

And fly to the skies.

I’m waking up

To a whole new world,

I wear my crown,

And rule the world.

I’m waking up

To a whole new me,

I spread my arms,

And welcome life.

I’m waking up from

A previous life,

Leaving the burdens

Behind me in Rebirth.

I’m waking up

And I’ll make a change

I’ll rule the world and start again.

-Emily

#Rebirth #RebirthChallenge

Every day is a new day,

Each one begins again,

You have tomorrow.

Every day is different,

But yet it is the same,

We just make it different,

So we can try again.

Dawn calls in the birth,

Dusk calls in the death,

It is a never ending circle.

When each day dies,

It is reborn,

And we never notice.

I am troubled.

I am unknown.

I stand alone on a snowy hill,

And all around me is still.

The wind whips into a frenzy,

And I am lifted up.

Lifted away from the snow,

And the hill and the stillness.

I am troubled.

In the air I am unhinged,

Adrift in the sky.

I am unkown.

As I fall to the earth,

I think of my hill,

And the stillness and the snow.

And when I land upon sand,

I am unnerved.

And the waves rush toward me,

Threatening to take my breath,

But the water is warm.

I am untroubled.

I am known.

I had a dream

that I could

and to prove to myself that

little

I went

then I revealed a crack in my shell

and secrets poured out

and now they all know who I am

and they're watching me

screening my every keystroke

but they do not know

that they track an empty carcass

and the heartline has gone flat

and now here I am

rebirthed from my prison of watchful eyes

they don't know me like they did

but they will

and then I

will be free to run rampant.

for the other was taken as the Devil's own pet

to die in a gilded cage

and now I cackle over the grave of my weak, broken dreams

for now I am born anew.

Born to new, freedom, soon to be new chains.

but I will do it again.

and as a phoenix rises from its old ashes.

I walked through a barren desert

where cactus spines pierced my skin.

My tears drenched the parched earth.

In my arms I carried my future,

while I sank under the weight of my past.

When I felt I could walk no farther,

I looked behind me.

Flowers grew from the cracks in the ground,

following my tail of tears.

Out of my pain came a growth of beauty and grace.

With a lighter load and a lighter heart,

I let go of the things that didn't matter.

The dusty ground swallowed them

and I took a step forward.

I will finish my journey.

At the end of light...was familiar dark,

The jungles of new mother's heart,

Her spine, a brace, for my rebirth,

In this cold, hard, but hopeful Earth...