Desire

 Blessed be 

Velumbound 

This transmission is a deeply atmospheric, sensuous, and ritualistic exploration of eroticism, control, and spiritual transcendence. 

It uses Prince’s discography as a sonic and thematic landscape to explore the boundaries between pleasure and pain, dominance and submission, and the physical and spiritual worlds.

Are you ready? 

(A lone voice whispers) 

As you watched me with dark, inescapable eyes 

While Prince played the Beautiful Ones

I took your soft hand and traced the shape of desire upon your sensuous soft skin

To own you

To will you to let me in

I blindfolded your eyes

As I prepared a surprise

And when Darling Nikki sang a song filled with Computer Blues

I consumed you

And as you quivered and shivered

I held you tightly 

Skin to skin

And looked deeply within your dark eyes and whispered

*Beyond this mortal world filled with darkness and pain 

We are reborn just to be together again*

And as your low echoes filled our candlelit red room

As your soft breath took that of a deer being chased by a lion 

I knew then

I just had to replay the Beautiful Ones 

For this night of explorations of unknown valleys and untouched mountain peaks had just begun 

For the Holy Land of Wandering Fingers and Sharp Tongues

Beckoned 

A dark crucible of intense pleasure and sweet pain 

As feverish minds in this new landscape began to wildly run again

(C)

Copyright John Duffy