Phoenix Rising: Prompt

Today's poem on my blog starts with destruction but ends in a very different place.

From today's creative endeavor, start your piece--whatever it is--in a bad place. That place can be literal or figurative or both.

Then change direction and end up in a different, better place (again, literal, figurative, or both).

For inspiration, read the poem on my blog, "(A terrible kaleidoscope)" by Lina Kostenko, translated by Uilleam Blacker.