I'm The Phoenix * * * Perhaps I'm meant to carry these burdens alone; to struggle to a new level of achievement only to find it's all been an illusion; to have my load come crashing in around me, only to have it lifted again. If that’s so let it be. For I only lose to those who not enjoy my labor, perhaps I'm the Phoenix that's meant to have many love’s within me as this world go though it’s cycles as I grow more common then to self-destruct with flames of slow desires and excess, if this is true so be it. For then how I can still lose when I fail to rise again, when I'm meant to have you put before me to gaze and crave upon and to share even but for a fraction before having you wrenched away without even a smile when I reach out touching you? If that's truth so be it. for I only lose when I fail trying to stretch out for you at the end of my life! Steven L. Siegel December 6, 2009