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Mother of Desire

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ArtPacks Birthright

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Darkness came first. It was narrow and claustrophobic in my mother's womb. I wanted out. As I emerged, I felt the separation. Alone and naked, there was "me". My mother had been left behind forever. I was hungry and cold. I needed, and I wanted. The more I got, the bigger I grew. I wanted it all. I became a famous singer, and joy surrounded me. Wealth and love fell into my lap like ripe fruit. Time passed. I got bored with it, so I sought wisdom. I read a lot, I healed people. I received their gratitude and love. But I kept longing. There was something in me which was always yearning. For more, or for something else. One moonless night, I left my home behind and set on a path beneath the stars and satellites, to find what I did not know. Suddenly, night became as day. A blue man was flying through the skies, his dreadlocks sweeping celestial bodies out of his way, and wild tears streaming down his fierce face. In his arms, he was carrying the lifeless body of his queen. A piece of it tumbled down, shooting like a star towards the ground. I took it as a sign. I walked to where it fell, paying the beasts and ghouls on the way no mind. In a valley, crystalline water was gushing from a rock in the shape of a cowrie shell. I got naked and jumped into the pond that was forming. The water turned red. The rock was bleeding. My body turned crimson. I emerged dancing in abandon, my matted hair wild in all directions. All I had wanted was freedom, and it was lust which had led me here. There was nothing to do but to forget myself in the purest ecstasy of love. I realized then, that I had never left my mother's womb! It is the world itself, sustained by the power of desire.

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2023

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