Athene

Yeah

Hundred billion sparks in the dark of the skull

Every wound left a path, every path made a pull

Every thought that I fed put a weight on the scale

I was building my brain every time that I failed

Now I see it for real

No mask, no myth, no manufactured appeal

Just signals and storms tryna learn how to heal

And the man in the mirror ain’t fixed — he’s a field

I been rewiring pain into power

Minute by minute, hour by hour

Mirror in my mind, I was lost in the crowd

Now I move with a voice that is quiet but loud

No chains on the self I invented before

No war with the waves, I just learn what they’re for

I was split, I was drifted, I was pulled by the noise

Now I’m choosing my thoughts, I ain’t trapped in the void

We are patterns, we are pulses, we are fire in a frame

Not a permanent identity, not a single, solid name

We are memory in motion, we are circuits under strain

If I face what’s unconscious, I can rewire all the pain

Yeah, the world gets inside us, and we echo what we see

But the moment I observe it, I can start to make it free

So I step into awareness, let the false self fall apart

From the neurons to the soul print, I’m rebuilding from the heart

Used to take every difference like a threat to survive

Narrow mind, limbic hijack, just react and deny

Defensive chemistry flooding, had me stuck in a cage

Thinking anger made me stronger, really fear was the gauge

Social validation had me fiending for the hit

Dopamine for every nod, serotonin when I fit

But the mirror neuron blurred where I ended, you begin

So I wore a hundred faces just to feel I could blend in

Backward-rationalizing every impulse, every scar

Telling stories to myself ’bout why I am what I are

But the truth is more complex, there’s no tyrant at the core

Just a chorus full of circuits kicking open every door

Self-observation brought the neocortex online

Turned reaction into reason, turned the chaos into rhyme

Now resilience getting stronger every time I stay awake

Every trigger is a lesson, every fracture is a break

I been rewiring pain into power

Minute by minute, hour by hour

Mirror in my mind, I was lost in the crowd

Now I move with a voice that is quiet but loud

No chains on the self I invented before

No war with the waves, I just learn what they’re for

I was split, I was drifted, I was pulled by the noise

Now I’m choosing my thoughts, I ain’t trapped in the void

Left brain wanna lock the world down in a story it can keep

Right brain sees the cracks forming underneath the concrete

When the model can’t contain what reality revealed

Either truth gets integrated or the fracture stays concealed

Ain’t no single throne of consciousness, no master in command

Just a temporary image made of shifting grains of sand

Like pixels making portraits, like a waveform in the mist

Every second I’m emerging as a different kind of this

So the self I used to worship was a useful little lie