Be Free Lovely

 I am the beauty

 from the beast 

I rise

Assassinating 

my demons 

I rise

Like the sun in the west

Dust on a treasure chest

Like fallen leaves

Guided by the breeze

Wonderlustly 

I rise

No longer desperate 

for the gold 

At the end of each storm

I am made of diamonds

 Like queens and kings 

I rise

Like Jesus from the tomb 

Flowers that bloom

Caged birds set free

Uttering songs that touch the souls

Of all those who have fallen and rose

Past the moon

I rise I rise I rise

You walk past me 

Doubting my abilities

 To rise like the tide

Yet I still survive

Morphing into a butterfly

They chained my physicality

Bent me till I fit in a box 

So my mind ran free

Realizing how limitless

 I can truly be

Amoungst the galaxies they can look 

But their blind eyes will never see

The lotus flower I have grown to be

Or the angels that follow me

Like the hate in their eyes 

When they see me shine

I rise

From pain came gains 

Of things I use to take in vein

I rise

Past Saturn and Mars 

I wave at the stars 

Letting the universe cleanse

My scars

I rise I rise I rise

Like your heart beats

 Inevitably showing life

I rise

Like when newborns open their eyes 

To the beauty of the journey to overcome

Like prayers to the divine

I rise I rise I rise

(Inspired by the late the great Maya Angelo RIP & dedicated to my eldest brother.)