Phoenix Within
Can you hear yourself when nothing else is heard
Can you find yourself in the places where you hide
Can you hear the stillness that speaks between the words
Can you open the curtains when there’s nothing left outside
When you’ve seen yourself and all you’ve been
Cried your tears and felt your pain
The answers you find in the silence of mind
When you’ve reached deep down to rise again
When you’re beaten by their hearts of stone
Bleeding from their lashes
Can you be with you when they’ve left you all alone
Can you rise from out of the ashes
The Phoenix found within
Can you hear yourself when nothing else is heard
Can you find yourself in the places where you hide
Can you hear the stillness that speaks between the words
Can you open the curtains when there’s nothing left outside
When you’ve seen yourself and all you’ve been
Cried your tears and felt your pain
The answers you find in the silence of mind
When you’ve reached deep down to rise again
When you’re beaten by their hearts of stone
Bleeding from their lashes
Can you be with you when they’ve left you all alone
Can you rise from out of the ashes
The Phoenix found within
- Jane Burd 2009
