Sorcery
Because you are a sorcerer
you have a pulled a word
from under the tongue of a pagan god
and used it as a spell.
Because you have written it
the runes have become mythril
and I am strung to you, inseparate,
unable to break its silvery coils.
Though I had looked for its shape,
its definition in my pale days,
the blessing did not come -
my magician proved too weak.
Though others, eager, took the quest,
they were too slight, too fearful,
placing the bones long whisper
carelessly on a list, like a chore.
Its pulse is loud.
The blood is hot.
Lightening fire strikes deep.
And you, who keep alchemy,
have conjured measurements of
cinnabar, antimony, orpiment, tin
and mixed my plainer metal in
to an unfamiliar with a throwaway charm.
See it has patterned a tattoo,
an immortality
stitching my dull bedrock with flowers.
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