Alchemy and Analogy: Silver into Gold

Re-entry onto covered ground

As we touch down without a sound

We’re back again right at the start

The furnace burns inside my heart

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And in hers too — or so I thought

Now come to learn, fake gold I bought

This silver tongue that speaks to snakes

Poisons the well despite the stakes

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“Let’s live in hell, it’s not so bad,

Your soul’s your own to burn down here

And righteousness is but a fad

What sacred fruit do you hold dear?

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You know, if you but gave the word

I’d find for you this special sweet

It sets you free, is what I’ve heard

It puts you in the driver’s seat

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Don’t shy away, for I’m your friend

Don’t let him say that we can’t talk

We’re side by side right to the end

Entwined upon this path we walk

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No matter where your feet may stray

Your shadow’s always got your back

Always just out of sight I stay

For subtlety I have a knack

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Just stand by me, I’ll stand by you

And to yourself, you’ll remain true

I only want what’s best for us

That’s why just I should drive the bus”

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This sickly sweet yet subtle song

Enchanted me for far too long

She quickly beat upon my chest

Like drums that boomed, thus we were blessed

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But only for a day or two

Our limelight soon starts fading fast

The gold takes on a silver hue

Why can’t this magic moment last

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The honeymoon, it can’t not end

The couple must, their garden, tend

So back we go, we must depart

This furnace yearns inside my heart

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Now day to day, we’re half asleep

A plodding path we walk, like sheep

Lovers who barely talk and keep

Their distance from the tears they weep

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This loveless stare in which they’re caught

Is far from what they’ve always sought

They claim to care just as they ought

But witness what their choices wrought

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I’m here, I speak, you hear no sound

A moonless night, a shipless port

My voice is weak, are you around?

A tuneless rite, a gripless sort

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A hopeless plight, desolate ground

A girl with hands over her ears

I guess in silence she had found

A partner worthy of her fears

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The willful blindness of her peers

Seemed unearned kindness for a time

But it’s been mindless all these years

To seem indifferent to the crime

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Of leading on and kicking off

Whenever one can’t get their way

Of training all one’s friends to scoff

When from one’s story, others stray

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I tried to move us t’wards the light

She didn’t want to flee or fight

What was a groove became a rut

The door on us, she surely shut

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All her excuses seem so trite

She hems and haws ‘tween wrong and right

She shan’t seduce my soul once more

The web is spun, who’s keeping score?

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Her soul is led along by fright

One movement and she will take flight

So language is my magic spell

Now listen as I ring the bell

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The verdict’s read, as is my write

The night is black yet I am bright

We can’t go back, we played our part

The phoenix burns inside my heart

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I hope you enjoyed this poem :) This was a prelude to an essay that I wrote for the Medium Writer’s Challenge called Silver into Gold. If you found the content of this poem resonant or intriguing, then I encourage you to check out the full essay here. Have a great day!