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ALCHEMY
by Raymond C. Sison

Hear "Alchemy" in MY OWN VOICE!
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Behind an unseen curtain
You sit before me,
There, but not there;
The minutes are not as elusive.
I try to memorize your face
One more time,
Travelling past
Your dreamy eyelids
To imagine the sweet day
When you were born,
And the exact place where
A mysterious confluence
Of time currents
Put in motion a miracle
--You.
Amazing! Atom by atom
Your lovely hands were created;
Cell by cell
Your complicated mind.
The truth is, my love,
You are a sublime illusion,
A cosmic magic trick
That I savour
--Enigmatic energies
Held together
Only for a time.

- 21 March 1998, Saratoga, California

Dear Friends,

In the days after completing this poem I felt very unsure about it, wondering if it truly captured what I was feeling. Now I treasure this poem so much because it DOES say what I wanted it to. And I marvel that a human being could move me so much, so passionately, to write these words...

I wrote this poem on the first day of the Spring of 1998. That Saturday I was driving around, following my daydreams. They led me to gorgeous Saratoga, California, in the shadow of the Santa Cruz Mountains. I saw a sign that said "Madrona Cemetery," and something made me turn there...

The new Madonna song that played on the radio and the serenity amidst all of the grave markers infused me with a deep sense of spirituality. I parked in the cemetery and marvelled that there was no sound except the gentle song of the soft spring rain. There I lost myself in my new poem and felt a wistful sense of release when I finished it...

- Ray, 17 July 1998

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