saturday and sunburnt skin

I got my face sunburnt on Saturday. As sunburnt skin goes, it peels away, and falls to the ground. The skin that peels away is dark, blackened, by the sun. As it falls away, it looks like ash - transparent ash.

How poetic - I thought, sunburnt skin, peeling away like ash.

Like a phoenix, a self renewing from the ashes of itself. The outward is wasting away, the inward ever renewing. We are renewing ourselves everyday, as the cells die and peel away into dust...We die everyday, and yet renewed - how weird.