rising like phoenixes from the ash
of their birth bodies,
each new adult reincarnates
to their own desire.
Princesses turn into princes,
princes into princesses,
tomboys into tomcats:
furred, tailed, cyborg,
not quite human.
Senescence erased,
standing on the shore of lives
stretching to unknown horizons,
they will resurrect the future
their ancestors destroyed.
When they have seeded
the solar system
with mammoths, dodos,
penguins, polar bears,
they will claim the stars.
DreamForge Anvil © 2019 DreamForge Press
Coming of Age 2150 © 2019 Mary Soon Lee
Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for thirty years. She is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and a three-time winner of both the AnLab Readers’ Award and the Rhysling Award. Her latest books are from opposite shores of the poetry ocean: How to Navigate Our Universe, containing how-to astronomy poems, and The Sign of the Dragon, novel-length epic fantasy, winner of the Elgin Award. Website: marysoonlee.com.
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