In this prayer I ask to be set ablaze, Stripped naked strapped down gasoline veins cut open bleeding combustion into the engine of history, I ask to be melted down to my base elements - animus, spirit, wrath, righteousness and judgement, I ask to be cleansed and sanctified, to rise at last from my knees as smoke and heat, drifting above all things and in defiance of them, I ask to become the heretic, the witch, the conjuror and the saint, I ask to be consumed by an eternal fury and become holy - embers in the great kiln of becoming In this prayer I ask to become - to know what it feels like to be created again, To feel as the atom split, The kindling ignited, The match struck, I ask to know what it means to be a light that cannot be extinguished, And with this prayer, may I light up this night, and all the nights to come