03 / Cosmic Ignition
I Become
I was not born all at once I was gathered from the flame A little heat, a little dust A shape without a name I was pressure, I was silence I was waiting to be made I was something before language I was changing in the shade All the old lines started shaking All the fixed points came undone All the dark inside me opened Like it knew what I'd become Not a death and not a leaving Not a mask and not a lie Just the hidden parts assembling Underneath a violent sky And I become I become Not the same Not undone I become I become More than what I started from Let the old light break Let the first fire run Let the hard shape change I become I become I was lighter than a whisper I was heavier than stone I was crowded by the voices That had never been my own They would call me by the outline They would measure what they saw But the center kept on moving Like it answered different laws There were colors in the pressure There were metals in the rain There were pieces coming closer Through the hunger and the strain And the more I tried to hold them The more they burned my hands Till I stopped asking permission To be more than I had been And I become I become Not the same Not undone I become I become More than what I started from Let the old light break Let the first fire run Let the hard shape change I become I become I am not the ash I am not the wound I am not the shape They fitted to the room I am not the name I was given first I am not the silence That rehearsed I am not the shadow Of an older skin I am not the door They locked me in I am not the ending I was running from I am what the fire Makes of some Little bright things Little strange things Little fragments Rearranging Little lost things Little nameless Little sparks Becoming stainless Little hard things Little soft things Little almosts Turning often Little wrong things Little right things Little bodies Made of lightning And I become I become Not the same Not undone I become I become More than what I started from Let the old light break Let the first fire run Let the hard shape change I become I become There was no single moment When the door opened wide There was only heat and motion There was only change inside There was no final answer There was no perfect sign There was only something forming Where I thought I had to hide And the pieces found each other And the pressure learned my name And the body of the darkness Started singing through the flame Not as one thing, not as nothing Not as lost and not as found But as all the hidden brightness Finally pulling itself out And I become I become Not the same Not undone I become I become More than what I started from Let the old light break Let the first fire run Let the hard shape change I become I become Make me from the heat Make me from the strain Make me from the parts That would not stay the same Make me from the dark Make me from the run Make me from the pressure And the first undone Make me from the ache Make me from the glow Make me from the things No one thought to know Make me from the break Make me from the hum Make me from the fire I become I become Not one line Not one name Not one face Inside the frame Not one shape Not one road Not one answer Set in stone Not one voice Not one skin Not one cage To hold me in Not one ending Not one sun Not one thing I must become I become I become Not the same Not undone I become I become More than what I started from Let the old light break Let the first fire run Let the hard shape change I become I become All the dust is singing All the dark is warm All the scattered pieces Move into a form All the names are melting All the lines are thin All the hidden matter Rises from within All the old light breaking All the new light born All the quiet changing Into something more All the first things ending All the last things gone All the heat inside me Still becoming song I become I become Not the same Not undone I become I become More than what I started from I become I become Not erased Not overrun I become I become More than what I started from Let the old light break Let the first fire run Let the hard shape change I become I becomeBack to Now We Ignite