Poetry by Azia Archer
No You Are Not Ashes
If you feel invisible
Until you learn to scream
I’m so sorry, little bird
I hear your song
Your wings are not yet clipped
You can fly, so fly
There is an entire sky out there
Waiting for you
Don’t smother that tiny fire,
Fan the flames
You are a phoenix, baby
So burn
Burn and burn and burn
Until you’ve been transformed
Into a bigger bird
The biggest bird we’ve ever seen
Turn that scream
Into a sun
The world will bloom
Because of you
If you feel invisible
Until you learn to scream
I’m so sorry, little bird
I hear your song
Your wings are not yet clipped
You can fly, so fly
There is an entire sky out there
Waiting for you
Don’t smother that tiny fire,
Fan the flames
You are a phoenix, baby
So burn
Burn and burn and burn
Until you’ve been transformed
Into a bigger bird
The biggest bird we’ve ever seen
Turn that scream
Into a sun
The world will bloom
Because of you