Iosis
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Remake me, alchemist
Consult your emerald tablet
Transformed through
Cinnabar’s mercurial cure
Thanks to you
I am a
Fully realized
Red blooded human
Meticulously distilled
In your alembic condenser
Hermes Trismegistus
Wonderful hybrid of
Syncretic glory, you
Have transmutation
Down pat
Inert and ignorant
I was a statue
Grotesque marble frieze
Titillating tales
On display to
Unfeeling spectators
Who lazily wield
Ornate binoculars
Zeroing in on
Sordid details
Only a true alchemist
May slump stone
Back into sludge
Bon voyage, I say
Stinking death of ignorance
Dissolved in darkness
You brought me
Back to light
Bathed in white
Citrinitas to Rubedo
Now I am ready
For you to
Name me Iosis
Prepare a
Golden place
Beside you
Where I might
Sit at your feet
We are
Two of a kind
Hybrids of
East and West
For here I am
A daughter
Forward in time
Using language
To bring you
Back to life
About the Creator
Aspen Marie
In love with life and all of its foibles.
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