Let the Phoenix Flame
I'm sitting in a flowerbed
The stars are awake above my head
I cannot get to sleep.
So I turn my head and talk to you
We exchange words of truth
now the cycle is complete
I touch your hand, feel your heart beat
In this moments golden heat
Your skin feels like ember.
Everything within me glows
I feel my heart begin to grow
Bursts like a supernova
Fly, fire, fly
Rise up and seize the sky
Don't let this desert turn to ash
Don't let her hold you back
So let that phoenix flame
Rise up, be born again
And watch the colours burn
You know now it's our turn
With your coffee-coloured eyes
You just need to recognise
That the phoenix in your heart still flies
The stars are awake above my head
I cannot get to sleep.
So I turn my head and talk to you
We exchange words of truth
now the cycle is complete
I touch your hand, feel your heart beat
In this moments golden heat
Your skin feels like ember.
Everything within me glows
I feel my heart begin to grow
Bursts like a supernova
Fly, fire, fly
Rise up and seize the sky
Don't let this desert turn to ash
Don't let her hold you back
So let that phoenix flame
Rise up, be born again
And watch the colours burn
You know now it's our turn
With your coffee-coloured eyes
You just need to recognise
That the phoenix in your heart still flies
♠ ♠ ♠
Features lots of intimate sensory imagery in terms of touching and heat. The phoenix is indicative of a living embodiment of fire, where fire = passion. Written in present tense and so displays still evident emotions. Two similes in the second stanza - again, both heat imagery and both to emphasise intensity of emotion. Last line recognises the phoenix as a living embodiment of fire, and the message is to recognise the present; here there is a definite indication of mutual feelings and intimacy, and the interlocutor asks the reader (who the poem is addressed to) to remember their memories together, and not let them mean nothing.