And, I rose from the ashes…

The desolate landscape sighed.

Its desultory angst wrapped in

Shards of impotent hope;

Still bemoaning

The loss of its verdant yesterday

It nudged me,

Cajoled me, into wakefulness.

And I…

I rose from the ashes,

From the glowing embers

Of a burnt past annihilated

By apathy.

Yes, I…

I rose from the ashes

And threw off the somnolent

Duvet of suppressed hope.

I stretched my palsied limbs,

Shrugging off the dusty cobwebs

Of inaction,

I gasped in a ragged sooty breath.

But I…

I rose from the ashes,

For my slumber, I ended.

Even though chafed and

Left to languish,

I still rose.

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Author’s note – This poem is a salute to the indomitable spirit of the human race. Like earth, we too embody the capacity to rise from our ashes, even if it is us who reduced everything to ashes.

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