On The Precepts Of Amateur Alchemy

There is a tiny impossible thing called a 'Sorcerers' Stone'
which creates something from nothing
and nothing from being
its shaped like a small round coin
bisected down the impossible center
one side is fear, the other, love
this coin rests in all of our hearts
and we conduct Alchemy with varying degrees of responsibility
to the governing factors of the universe

A frightening, frightening thing
to bend lead into gold
to transmute little glimmering dolls
or jeweled crowns
as I have
without ever, ever seeing the other side

and now
now
very now
there is time.
Not quite so much,
but enough.

Love love love (LOVE),
Dakotah