Desire

Lyrics

It's the "Wanting" we desire Not the thing…

There's a hunger in my bones that nobody could appease Not a touch, not a taste, not a thousand offered keys It's the pull of some horizon where my name is still unknown Where the self I haven't met yet waits to claim me as its own

I don't chase the fleeting pleasures That dissolve when night is through I am burning for becoming For the "me" I can't yet view

Desire is the fire that remakes me Every time I shed my skin Not a craving, but a calling A beginning tucked within I don't want what I can hold So much as who I might become Desire is the engine Not the sum

Every version I've outgrown is a ghost I kiss goodbye Thanking it for all the ways it taught me how to die I am not the past reflections, nor the mirrors yet to be I am just the restless motion toward a wider kind of me

I won't let my wanting shrink me Into greed or little wars I will let it be a compass Pointing past my current shores

Desire is the fire that remakes me Not a hunger born of lack It's the current in the river Pulling forward, never back I don't want the world to feed me I want room enough to grow Desire is the question Not the "no."

Let every wish that chains me Fall away, unnamed Let every wish that wakes me Be the one I claim

Desire is the fire that remakes me As I shed what I outgrow If I chase what dulls my spirit Then I'm choosing not to know I will want with open eyes Let the wanting make me new Desire is the doorway I walk through