Lorna

Phoenix from the Ashes

Where have the sinews and muscles in your arms

And the ruddy color in your cheeks

From days outdoors

Gone

 

Why are your arms once so strong

And legs that stood so firm against the world

Shriveled to the state I see before me

Now

 

When did the hands that could craft and gesture

And the eyes that could see and show your soul

Weaken and go slow and

Dim

 

Would that I could refashion

Those sinews and muscles and arms and legs, hands and eyes

Make them whole again to renew

You