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Intimate Mythologies

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I want a planet all to myself.

 

I want it to cradle me in its benevolent bosom.

 

I want it to protect me from the relentless, the unbearable anxiety that is my affliction.

 

I want shelter from life’s mournful fluctuations.

 

I want to conquer death—or at least to make it forgetful.

 

I want the universe to love and preserve me, forever.

 

Or if not that, I want to waft without end in a delicious suspended animation: peacefully to float in the warm amniotic currents of dreamtime.

 

I want to be able to ford great rivers, to skip over mountains, to fly across the sky, to breathe under water, to move through walls, to turn back time.

 

I want to explore the ruins left by the people who came before and abandoned this place.

 

I want to reckon these multitudes and become them.

 

I want to span the benign expanses of the silent wildernesses and of the haunted oceans.

 

I want to talk to the trees and the wind, and read the testimony of every speck of dirt, of every grain of sand.

 

I want to bless all the hidden beasts and soothe their disquiet.

 

I want my compassion to grow from a flickering ember to a wildfire, to an inferno, to a blazing star, to a supernova, to an all-embracing conflagration.

 

I want to know no fear.

 

I want to see through demons.

 

I want to be music.

 

I want to sing myself—to sing all of us.

 

I want to sweep the land with my brittle, shaky voice.

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