I am a phoenix

I am a phoenix.

I rose from the ashes of another.

I was there for it all and I was born of it all.

From the corpse of a dead flower I awakened and spread my wings.

Ritual begets monsters.

I was there for the decades of sacrifice.

I was there for the drugs.

And the sex.

And the shadowy dealings that they thought were behind closed doors.

I am their worst nightmare.