Alchemy

Pic by Tharindu Amunugama

And those alchemists

the honest ones

for whom metal was metal

and not plastic and bonds,

yes those ancient ones

and the new

the turn-to-gold

of labor

and by way of usurpation

legal and otherwise,

did they not have eyes

or mind

or heart

to see universe in sand-grain

the elemental transformation

the exercise of suzerainty by gold

and end of day

and the happy relinquishing to silver

come dawn?

[Inspired by the photography of Tharindu Amunugama]

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