Name: I Intend to Die
Duration: P00H04M41S
Description: In an age when technology can keep a person alive for years or decades after some trauma might have killed them, I contemplate my own relationship to death. This is one of my most beautiful melodies, I think.

I Intend to Die

from Everything's a Phoenix by Jonathan Brinkley

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In an age when technology can keep a person alive for years or decades after some trauma might have killed them, I contemplate my own relationship to death. This is one of my most beautiful melodies, I think.

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I intend to die
as I intend to live:

open handed.

I intend to take
what living tends to give,

nothing demanded.

to release what I want is to have it
to enjoy what I have is to need nothing

to die gracefully, gratefully,
in every moment
with every breath
is to accept
that death is nothing new
that fear is the only thing that makes it scary
and that life is always new
everything changing
just as it has
since the first human clenched the first fist at the
already ancient sky
and even before that.

Let my grave be the ravenous forest,
marked only by ashes,
and let them spell out:

ECSTASY THROUGH PEACE.

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from Everything's a Phoenix, released May 20, 2011
Jonathan Brinkley: Words and Music, Vocals and Guitar

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Jonathan Brinkley Portland, Oregon

Portland-based artist Jonathan Brinkley travels a lot to share his music around the world. When not traveling, he's lived and worked on organic farms. The themes of growth, death, motion, and regeneration heard in his songs are influenced by both stillness and wandering. An undaunted dedication to truth-telling earns him a following of fans who connect to his music on a very personal level. ... more

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