The Phoenix


You left and I
Walked back through
The hallways of time
Growing ever smaller
Ever thinner
In the rear view mirror.

My heart
Smashed and shattered
Into a million brittle shards
Each sweet sharp point
Iridescent gleaming
In the gathering gloom
Each step growing lighter
Softly slipping into darkness.

For only in darkness
Do I feel you all around me
Enveloping me
Intensity beyond intensity
Pleasure so close to pain.

Now I don't care
And care so much
Now I am timeless
Now I am born again.

Your parting gift to me
Seeing through your eyes
Your blood streams
Through my veins
And nothing is
As it was.

Sometimes
I fly so high
The stars in their spheres
Seem to call my name
And you are there among them.

At last
All the whirling turmoil
Settles fast and deep into
One simple truth
Like the Phoenix
I shall arise from the Flames.



* * * Pandora Diane Waldron September 30, 1997