Burn It All Down

Sometimes the only way for regeneration

Is to burn it all down

To let the dead bury the dead

To shed the many layers

To take off the many masks

And just lay yourself bare.

To stoke the flames with all clutter you’ve accumulated over the years

All the things

All the successes

All the failures

All the joys

All the pain

All the anguish and everything else that’s been allowed to rule you

Everything thats come to define you

And just watch it all burn, 
let it all simmer and be reduced to ash.

Making fertile again the soil in which your seed was first planted

And then watch it grow again.

But this time, true to its essence

No pretense

Just the reality of everything that you are and everything that you can be –

Rise Phoenix rise.

For here comes that rain again.