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Lay Me Ablaze

from Ontogeny by Jason Yellen

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I want to be still
At the whim of desire.
Self-abandoned, but moved
by the intent winds that'll take me.
Freed by inertia.
What grows inside me?

I want to be still at the whim of desire...

The only motion, my longing,
The want to be wanted,
To be pulled away from myself
Through someone else’s dream.
I’d be still as a stone
In that perpetual stream.

Someone take me until I am:
Out of my reach,
Out of my depth,
Out of my flesh.

Let this fire catch me,
Lay me ablaze in the dried “Leaves Of Grass,”
I’ll grow and I’ll change.
There’s no such thing as a body
That lives through only one name.

Lay me ablaze. I’m fuel to the flame.
There’s no such thing as a body
That lives through only one name.

Lay me ablaze. I’m fuel to the flame.
There’s no such thing as a body
That lives through only one name.

Lay me ablaze…

This is where all things fall.
Bottom of the soul, the molten core.
The birthing fire,
The bread of Spring.
The rising heat’s the breath of life.

Lay me in an open field
Until the roving grass
Grows over me.
I'll surrender!
Lilacs and embers;
Iris and grass
On flesh made or cinder.
Oh! I surrender! I surrender!

Falling in place by
Displacing myself.
Flaying the skin,
Retracing its touch
With what I wish that I was.

What do you dream of?
I dream of desire,
The hints in my body
And how they're designed.
The way that it breaks me
And splits up my life.

Right there in the grass.
Right there in the grass...

Right there in the grass
Where I'm surrounded,
I'll grow and I'll change.
Lay me ablaze. I'm fuel to the flame.
There's no such thing as a body
That lives through only one name.
Lay me ablaze...

Right there in the grass,
Lay me ablaze.
I'll grow and I'll change.
Lay me ablaze.

Right there in the grass,
Lay me ablaze.

I want to be still
At the whim of desire.
Self-abandoned, but moved
by the intent winds that'll take me.
Freed by inertia.
What grows inside me?

I want to be still at the whim of desire...

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from Ontogeny, released July 11, 2020

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