Monday, October 12, 2009

Phoenix?

Have you ever reached out
from your cinders
and been cast down to ashes?
Have you ever
churned dreams out of illusion
and known they were about falling
into another set of delusion?
To rise like this,
to be resurrected
as ashes are flung to the winds
in Chaitra.
Choose another season, please.
Let the ashes remain trampled
under the Baisakh sun
or wash it down with monsoon water.

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