Reborn

No more a wallflower shall I be
The moth fluttering towards the flames
Of fame and popularity
No, now I’ll shine and show the world
The sides of me I’ve hidden all these years
Hoist the flag, the true colors now unfurled
Head high hold fast and abandon all those fears
From this day forth the chrysalis
A crisis in its innocence
Shall shatter forth into a brilliant blaze
Bold butterfly flying high into the haze
As smoke behind me all begins to dissipate
No more anger, sorrow, bitterness, and hate
No more regrets or hiding in that cocoon
In which festered and bubbled the old wounds
I show my scars in a bold new audacity
Hardened through the years and they yield their own tenacity
I am not the smoke which wisps wherever the wind blows
Nor the moth that’s only seen when the flame shows
I am the heat, the burning embers from within
A phoenix, reborn, and now my new life shall begin