Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks January 2015: Ourobouros | страница 5

I Hope I Burn Well
Simon Benson
I will lift myself,
From my ash.
Stand tall and sure.
I will forget,
When I dust it off,
Who I was before.
And with the wind,
What had to go,
Will go.
I am not new,
Just different,
As my flaws float away.
I am no Phoenix,
But an ordinary man,
Trying to improve.

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