by LadyGenevieve
for me, this would hold more oomph if you ended it with that great phrase
past the stony face of life
where I am not a lesion
the final lines smack of cliché, but if you used Phoenix as your title, i don't think the allusion would be lost on the reader.
There was another version of this the other day, right?
Big improvment here. Nice to see a poet take the time and effort to reflect on their writing and come back stronger.