Alchemy

Here is an alchemy:

Not lead to gold

But led by the golden

glow from within

that homes to its source-light

steady, unerring

Here is the alchemy

that we behold

as we leave the old focus

and step forward, bold:

This light-washed vision,

All dullness resolving

till everything shimmers

in life’s vibrant tones

This is the alchemy:

Not something changed

But something conceived anew—

Radical point of view

Suddenly lightyears from what we’ve been told

What we had thought was so

Now so illumined

everything that we see

is gold.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 15, 2012