Rebirth

I lost everything
yet again.
Everything I had struggled
to rebuild for 21 years,
all my best laid plans.
The path that had seemd concrete -
disintegrated
dis-intergrated
disinter-grated.

If I could choose my life different
I would be pacing endless concrete,
dreaming of places I would never have been.
But I have seen those places I'd never dreamed;
this is not defeat
this is the price of transcendence
I can never be ordinary

The past burns with me
I arise from my ashes
No longer haunted,
I walk upon rocks that had witnessed
the beginning of time