Poem - Ashes

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Flames to ashes
Ashes to dust

Caged phoenix will rise
    —Again
Confined not
With resolution newfound
Turmoil of the
    Mind
        —Subsides…
Tempest post
    Ashes to dust

Resolved thou shalt
     —Fly!
With wings charred
Cannot freedom —bind?
     Nay!
Incarceration is of the
     Mind
A state of
     Mind
Shalt thou
       —Mind?
When the mind is not
     Right?
Only through the flames
Shalt thou —rise!
Rebirth from the ashes
     A mess
Yet necessity dictates

Unshackle thy chains
Mind chains thaw
In flame—
     And soar
Above flame
And leave nothing
But dust
     To ashes and
         Ashes to dust

Image Courtesy of Johannalris

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