Texas Standard listener Sarah Garrett requested a poem about a phoenix rising up and overcoming adversity and hardship. You can always send us your poetry requests.
Phoenix Times
sometimes a fire burns so bright
you feel like you’re consumed
your old life all in ashes
your only meetings zoomed
a catastrophic rearrangement
of everything you knew
you feel at times you’re near derangement
sometimes i feel it too
but i tell you, something new is stirring
in the ruins of the old
a spirit rising up among us
burnished bright and bold
by sheer disaster, essence shines
while dross is burned away
riven by loss but driven by love
we will seize the day
and take the pieces, torn and scattered
of what came before
and build with them a kinder world
that is what’s in store
if we learn what we are shown
and i believe we will
so hold fast, keep safe, and i’ll see you then
until,
my friends,
until.
Produced by Laura Rice.
