ALCHEMY 2

 
 The Pharma Trade lost its track 
and true authority.
Its delving research was enough to play with
get ego-rich, substituting gold.
 
The wise old men and sages of yore
were often penniless, unheralded;
their quest a holy grail  
about transmutative processes 
and ultimate transfiguration. 
 
… 
 
We’re stuck in the replicas of chem synthetics 
detached from the fires of the heart;
at the price of greed and lust 
on a false trail for immortality
and personal wealth, pure power 
- it’s ineluctable source.
Humanly-made, non-divine
it only lasts, holds together
when controlled by material force
abetted, limited by closed minds.
 
 
In the depths of every heart
separate and collective
lie the diamond tears of God
turned thus by pressure and time.
They glitter and glint in fossil-beauty
awaiting their resurrecting conflagration, back to sheerest light.
Our destiny.
 
03/24