Falling to Rise

Encrypted within letters
of disguised imagery,
just another way of hiding
behind words
due to fear of uncovering
what lies beneath
the ultimate desire
of the heart's,
that insatiable collaboration
of chemistries
which invades its barriers
and decimates all
but the tunnel
of sickening hopefuls.
To be here again,
counting removes complacency
and in its place remains
the ashes of the phoenix
that always manages to rise—
the heart's ability
of rediscovering its wings
so it can once more,
if not more,
soar.