ARE you willing to be sponged out, erased,
cancelled,
made
nothing?
Are you
willing to be made nothing?
dipped into oblivion?
If not, you will never really
change.
The phoenix
renews her youth
only when she is burnt, burnt alive, burnt down
to hot and flocculent
ash.
Then the small
stirring of a new small bub in the nest
with strands of down like
floating ash
Shows
that she is renewing her youth like the eagle
Immortal
bird.