A New Poem

All types of emotion and memories are running through me as I get ready to change my name and go full time or what is called ‘transitioning”. I am both scared and hopeful, so many thoughts are in my head that this poem coalesced and formed.

A Christening

Birth.
Death.
Rebirth.
Phoenix rising.
No! Not from ashes.
On a foundation
On a pedestal
Of stone.
A new chapter
But not
A new name
A new life
But still the same
But a new page
Memories
Still the same
Still me.
But reborn
A crystalis