They knew, those thousands years ago

this stuff was worth digging for,

fighting and cheating for.

It embodied the thermal, life-giving heat of nuclear fission

born from the primordial furnace of apocalyptic collisions

 between dying neutron stars -

their incorruptible, irreducible residue:

solid lumps of purest gold,

 

It represented value and worth,

almost divinely manifest.

Judaic idols, Hindu gods, embodied.

The alchemist's quest come true...

How did they know? And still do!

See how the Nilotic tribes

still bedeck their brides;

how Incan deities likewise, treasured;

to be stollen by conquistadors

and later by drug barons;

becoming money dripping with blood.

In Thai temples, Pharaonic tombs,

and Druid staches;

in hidden vaults under Swiss streets,

analogically in cryptocurrency

 - incorruptible.

Myths and tales of alien prospectors

mining for astronautical high-tech needs - as now, for computer chips and parts.

Something so cryptic,

so close to the heart - yet unreal...

while solid in Kings crowns,

wedding rings, false teeth; gold rushes;

mediums of status,

statements of holiness and privilege.

source of envy and concupiscence.

 

Ever since financial mandarins and silicon moguls

 manipulated and meddled

with gold’s ineluctable standards,

abandoning it for Interest or due to war

 it has involved Depressions, Famines, Dust Bowls, Trade wars, Hyper-inflation,

 Economic collapses and runs on Banks.

Either because of or instigating.

Some equate it with edible commodities like camels, wheat, dates,

or exchangeable for resource or land.

Always, more than it seems or sells for;

it’s hidden agendas inscrutably esoteric.

 

Ever since

fiat money diversified and proliferated

 - bitcoin and their ilk -

it got forgot.

Purely a trinket, a decorative asset,

a private or elite-group monopoly.

Forgetting it is the Earth's own treasure

part of its intrinsic substance, structure,

Self.

Who said we can own the land, the seas

let alone what lies within?

Meddle with the golden heart of solar fire

ravishingly alive, molten

the aura, halo of sanctity

 in its sacred core.