Rebirth

Her back was turned to the rising sun, and shadows filled her view
her jaded heart was missing it, running to what she'd already been though.

The laughter must have seemed a trick, a cruel degrading taunt
The pointing fingers and grinning lips, alone she could not daunt.

But this time something changed, his voice said "now turn around"
she did as she knew she must, and a new beginning is what she found

A warm embrace by father sun, a song sung from wings above.
the air may still have been cold with chill, but inside she was warmed with love.

The sun told her that this was her day, that for now his light would shine
He told her fear not the sunset... fear wasting this precious time.

"No doubt," he told her, "I shall set, upon the other side
then welcome night and stoke the fire, until again I rise."

"You see I am eternal, and you are not the cause
My life is set on cycles, if I'm gone it's not for long"

She thought she'd heard him right, but she paused as his words set in
and then she understood & let it all begin...

The shadows where still there, but now she didn't mind
rather than wait for the end, she'd treasure this precious time.

And so she knelt before him, her face and hands, now touched the ground
everything she'd every run from, had allowed her to be found...

~author unknown