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Flesh To Flower

from Cycles by Heirloome

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Will it eat me gently, when it does?
Will it burn me softly, when it does?
Will soil return me gracefully to seed?
A gardenia, catching flight
to become the breeze?

Brother, tell me - did it hurt?
Or was it like being born again in the dirt?
Did someone hold your hand?
And did you dream?
Did you call the angels in?
Did you think of me?

Oh the room, it gets emptier
Year by year
And the veils that lie between our lives
Get thinner still…
Year by year
Year by year
Year by year

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from Cycles, released November 19, 2021

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Heirloome Australia

There is a giant lily that grows, slowly, in the Himalayas. For most of its life, it appears to be an unassuming collection of heart-shaped leaves - until one day when it sprouts to 3 meters tall and unfurls in to angel-horn flowers.

For queer Australian artist Heirloome, a self-confessed ‘weird kid and late bloomer’, this flower is more than just an analogy - it’s a prophecy.
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