Because I'm still alive...

I felt like a phoenix, wings spread wide –

Embracing life with an eagle’s pride.

I felt like a murmur, tender and shy,

Still so worthy that we had to try.

I felt like a fall then, seasoned and red

Though the winter puts all to shred.

I felt like all, that gloom and smile -

Yet another life walking down my aisle.

It came with thrust and shunned my power,

Wiped off all in its fast devour.

Yet I retorted - trembling I stood,

Extorting the little left and came out of the hood.

Still I can live and still I move,

I came out of my ancestral groove.

May be not like a rock, not like a tide,

Not immortality, not close to glide,

Because I’m still alive I feel pride,

I feel like a phoenix, wings spread wide!