"The Phoenix"

I have walked through fire,

through ash,

through stone,

Lost my name,

my path,

my home.

But ruin does not mean defeat—

I am the flame,

I am the heat.

I do not rise as who I was,

But something greater,

something just.

Not a shadow, not a scar—

But a burning,

endless star.

Author's Note

Is not a return—it is a rebirth. I did not survive to be the same. I survived to become something greater.