Spiral Heartbeat

Open the gate inside

the chest

A little fire, a little breath

I was a stone in the river bend

Turning slow

where the dark would end Then your light found the seam in

me Pulled a sky

from the deepest sea

Every step has a living sound Every hurt lays its armor down

In the blood there is something bright Pushing through to a cleaner

light Feel it move,

feel it move in time Heart to earth,

then earth to sky

Hold me close to the turning blue

I become

what I run into We are rising,

rising now

From the ground into the clouds With a fire we never knew

Breaking open into blue

Oh we rise, oh we rise With the dawn behind our eyes

Every beat says carry through

Life is calling something new

Now the night is a patient friend Not a wall and not

the end I can hear in the trembling floor

All the names I was before

Let them fade like a passing tide Leave a trace,

then step aside There is

room in the human frame

To be changed and still stay named Ahhh,

carry me

Ahhh, steadily

I am not alone in this

I am not afraid of it

We are rising, rising now

From the ground into the clouds With a fire we never knew

Breaking open into blue

Oh we rise, oh we rise With the dawn behind our eyes

Every beat says carry through

Life is calling something new A

little fire, a little breath

A quiet sun beneath the chest

We are here, we are new