The Phoenix
The Phoenix
Leena Doley
Rising from the ashes
Born again
Amniotic fluid clings shining
Like morning dew
Washing away the yesterdays
Strength flows stronger than the
Blood in the veins
Day emerges bright
A meadow fresh
Tomorrow sounds a better song
All new
Wings test their sinews
Nothing has been lost
Only sturdier
For all the lashes they bore
Feet on the ground
Time paused
Waiting for the rebirth
Death conquered
Nothing will stop it now
And it looks back gratefully
At all the hands that
Aided it’s birth
Leena Doley is a police officer and a mother of two. She is also a voracious reader, movie buff, feminist, dabbler in new experiences and a dreamer imagining a world which is equal and humane.
