Audio version

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When you wake you return

To your body

That temple

City of shadows and lights

With your eyes closed

You prepare for departure again

To that mountain

That temple

Forest of shadow and sun

With your third eye open

Listen, princess

It’s a lie they tell you

The prince will not come to take you away

But one will come, 

To guard you while you fight

It’s an inconvenient truth,

Oh prince

Though you feel the safety of it in your heart

It’s the princess who rescues, as much as you

It’s the union and the distinction that saves

How can you stay here

In your body, 

Your prison

Hearing scratches at your door

Dear princess

They tell you lies from birth

It’s not their fault

They can only pass on what they’ve been shown

Here, 

This second

You dream you are reading

Words about yourself

Warnings, encouragement

Here,

Here

Wake with me

In your body you dream

They said you were royalty

They only knew half the truth

In your dream body you know

You are more than a human 

More than male, more than female

More than two, less than one

In your body you dream

You are all the eyes of every universe

You are more than a universe

You are less than nothing

You are fullness and emptiness themselves

And between

And everything else you cannot be

In your body

It’s you, 

Dreamer

It always was

You wake to your own rescue

You, in every body

Sleeping and seeing

Blinded and alive