The Alchemist

Down the winding stairs

A shadow in the night

Deep below the ground

Smoke and hazy light

Mercury and bronze

A crucible of clay

Whirls of ores abound

In the disarray

The frenzied alchemist

His hands still wet with dye

The genius alchemist’s

City in the sky

Dripping with pure gold

Lit by the saturn moon

A kind of strange glow effervescent

A kingdom of peace

Is what he deemed it be

His masterpiece

His final apogee

Metallic finesse

Mapped from an ancient scroll

The parts coalesce slowly surely

Every element

Careful and so precise

So elegant

A gilded paradise

Puffs of steam and smoke

Drift out of his workroom

Chimes of hanging glass

Swinging in the dark

Muttering and hums

Explosions out of sight

Mists of minerals burned

In the candlelight

Gold

The sun solidified

Shines like angels from above

Once my work’s complete

The world will finally see

What i’ve always been

Sure of

Dripping with pure gold

Lit by the saturn moon

A kind of strange glow effervescent

A kingdom of peace

Is what i deemed it be

My masterpiece

My final apogee

I’ll wait till all the stars align

Collision of the times

A ritual of sound

And energy

My cauldron boiling on the forge

Its purpose clear

The transmutation has begun

The moment’s near

And now i wait for the alchemy

My wildest dreams to be realized for me

My spirit thrives

Reputation revived

Once my metropolis comes alive

How strange

The vapors color changed

During the distillation

It re-arranged

Dark red

The bubbles turn to black

All my efforts now in vain

My quest for better worlds

Just a foolish scheme

Such delusion

Fills up my brain

I take my leave

My shame devours me

How mindless to misconceive

All my life oblivious

To be so bold

As to see in myself

A hero who turns lead to gold

So

My plans for utopia

My heaven above

With streets paved with aureate

Futures of peace

And love has slipped away from me

I am just a man

I am just a man

Only just a man