Mandragorits Mandragon

You, dragon man of milk and blood

I see you in the shades and caverns of night

I see you in my hands and veins

You are child - dragon

And I am you - man

I walk the night

My veins hanging loose

You stretch up

To unite within & beyond earth

I hear serpent song and

I hear you

My friend and foe

My distant memory of light

That fell to earth

I take you, my child

My dragon, my master

I know your veins stretch into the flesh of earth

As my blood stretch to my heart

Whenever I see you see I see my last breath

And you are that and is

The breath itself

Stillness and stance beneath

My feet

You my dragon friend

My Dragon fiend

My whisper through the earth

My Brother

And my woman shredding her skin

To reveal the purple within

Open the roads and open the eyes

I am earth

And I am the silence whispering soothing spells

Upon my root

I am you and you are me

As we are he and we are she

They told me you were woman and you are

Beloved by Venus and Moon

But you are mine

Spine and 77 vertebras

This you are

In my transfiguration

Between mole and dirt

I clasp to your veins

And to your blood

And let myself sink in this night of nerves

Where you ride me, as he or she

And there I am – as You.

Your Wolf and your Flower

I am the rider of the dark forest

I am the scales of your body

The root of wisdom

As it paints the world in nerves and borders

I am yours – and we are here at the fig garden

At the end of the worlds

Where I hand down my sickle and

Ask night….

And there you are

I have seen you before

So many times

Brother

Daughter

Friend

Enemy

The root of Saturn himself

Searching the Lovely Lady

Making night itself your playground

And in this night I see

I am not brother, nor friend

But playground and

Garden,

& with this

The night is at peace

Poison…

…and Shades of

Amen!

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