Rise Up

Burn me, drown me, take me down A Flaming Phoenix, I’ve been around Uproot, transplant, a new me is found Cut me, crush me, I rise from the ground Mistake not this fire for a coal black soul These colorful flames are brilliant & whole My talons and wings don’t think to control If passion is sin, I go to Sheol Shackle me back with those chains I wore? I won’t scream, bite or claw, but spread wings & soar I tried to love his cold ash before That grit in my mouth I’ll suffer no more Moved twenty times by sweet 16 Learned young to breathe through the in-between Grey ashes taught how to blaze & gleam From that dungeon I ascend as Queen