Phoenix Rising

she coyly throws her sideways glance as she has done countless other times making the hearts of men melt like butter under a hot sun...the crows feet around her eyes crinkle into their comfortable pattern as her mere grin turns into a full blown smile, proudly exposing her teeth...her eyes glisten with sunlight and tears welling in her eyes...tears of life...good...bad...and everything in between....

she could have never imagined her life to have become what it is now...a woman who holds onto traditions she never felt important and embracing contemporary things she never thought she'd care much for...

she glimpses herself in the reflection of a pond in the park where she poses and senses tranquility entering into her being...a gentle breeze rustles her hair as she listens quietly to the green leaves whooshing above..she can hear their song...their words of eternal observation and is entranced in that moment...

Its a moment of rebirth...for the world around her...and her inner self...shedding her skin she leaves behind the person that she was to be captured by the artist observing her in her moment of magnificence...

slowly she rises from her cocoon unfurling her newly fortified wings... walking away from the impression she left behind...a new woman...reincarnated...embracing new life for the remainder of her days...