The Phoenix’s Fire
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- Poetry Author's Name: Sneha Sabu
- URL of Poetry Author's Social Media Link: https://snehasabu.com/
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Poem:
In deep pain did I embrace the bloodshed
Like an albatross did it haunt me day and night
A five-day mystery lasted forty-five days,
Tears did I shed in the quiet corners of restrooms,
In hope of a healing touch.
The lining I shed was beyond normal,
The stigma, the discrimination beyond I could bare.
My sorrows turned to hunger,
I ate and ate and grew from size to size;
So did the three cysts in my ovaries.
With a sore lower back and abdomen
My oestrogen and progesterone dropped
Paving way for testosterone and androgen.
Feared did I the growing mouche and beard,
Anxiety and depression crawled in
Like an uninvited snake in a baby’s cradle.
In fear, my tongue silenced my inner storm
Tagged for obesity did the world around
My heart sank day and night
And soaked the bed with tears of sorrow.
The chores felt coerce
Small things seemed big.
The white clouds darkened
The second and hour needles stopped.
Days, weeks and months passed in hopelessness
My benighted soul paid no heed to understand
The plight of my heart and earthly body
The heart, body and soul splintered
In search of nature and healing my heart pounded
In despair, a new treatment did I begin
Of herbs and wholesome living
With a healing plea to the universe
In eclectic self-love and ray of hope.
The heart danced to a newfound redemption
The abnormal 45 days sprouted to a new five-day normal.
The bleeding stopped; the cysts stunted its growth
The scan showed they disappeared
Redemption knocked my mental and physical walls
The forgotten smile and the liberated mind leaped back
To sprout and sway with the new bed of dahlias
In a desert oasis dried up in the scorching heat.
A new pearl glow shimmered my face
From ashes I rose
To voice and express the silenced corners of my heart
Armoured in courage, the wailing heart revived.
Like a Phoenix flying from fire
The fire from within lit the new life
Free from the albatross that hung around
To be the connoisseur of the Phoenix’s revival.
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