I've been staring at these pages, mind-state purple Mercury's in retrograde, circles in a circle, what's the purpose? Slanging these rhymes like a merchant Handwritten in cursive Lately I've been staring at these pages, mind-state purple Mercury's in retrograde, circles in a circle, what's the purpose? 360... spiral the neck like a vulture goddess Milky Way patterns in the energies I harness In my mindset, I'm high as the sky gets, multiple sunsets Capturing thoughts with a butterfly net True reality runs deeper than the concept To the spectrum of your consciousness, Your pigment's only context This race can only be won if the psyche is steady Even Frankenstein began As a dream in the mind of Mary Shelley So throw caution to the wind, focusing the mental element Make walls crumble down like dilapidated settlements Although threatened with hell, I'll blast for the self, first Splatter the optics and damage the nerves Thirst for blood over everything, swing sabers like Annakin Ambidextrous androgen, I'm both the empress and the King Walk unseen in these verbal coliseums Kevin Bacon with quicksilver in his skeleton Matutinal and Vespertine, testosterone and estrogen I'm all things encoding, while subliminally messaging At times, It seems that I'm chained to all the trouble that I struggle with My shadows huddle in the mist Cause the blueprint of life has hidden meanings And deep within them Applied contradictions – angels interbreed with demons And misery loves company, it overwhelms and feeds me Fills me as I embrace the dark and light completely Guided by the ring of the seven sisters when the pitch darkens Artemis gravitates my aim to where the fixed mark is Hit the target, commander of the dart board When wounded, I'm the essence of our Lilith in her darkest form Day and night worshipper, stubborn as a mule Built my temple from her dreams and posted sentries at the vestibule Our army of degenerate practitioners Will street-sweep petition-free but walls will carry signatures Melancholic insignia My dog's name is Cerberus, past, present and future stay similar Observing distant memories, fading over ages Seen the pain of remembrance leave the structure ever-changing So I shape-shift and inspire the nihilists Decipher mind-script, hypotheses tested on self – mad scientist Spit fire and water, I'm lion and hydra Aloof in the distance like the constellation of Lyra A mystery of time, laid an egg and hatched a man A light-god with a staff of thunderbolts in his hand Illuminated the vision beyond peripheral I'm black Gorgon Medusa feeding off the visceral A throwback, in the age of clones and phone taps Metallic drones and all that, Command an army of skeleton bone stacks Measure motion sub-atomically My thought-forms like crystallized snow, colour of ebony Shimmering Staring at these pages, mind-state purple Mercury's in retrograde, circles in a circle, what's the purpose? Slanging these rhymes like a merchant Handwritten in cursive Lately I've been staring at these pages, mind-state purple Mercury's in retrograde, circles in a circle, what's the purpose?