Elixirs of Love and Hope

                           Elixirs of Love and Hope

         Elixirs of love and hope flood the dreams of youth,

    Promising fulfilment’s scope through some strange new truth

    Energised by mystic power that is meant to pass

    All those barriers which bar keen ambition’s cause;

         As sweet aphrodisiacs should seduce the sense,

    (For erotomaniacs), of a chaste defence;

    Or the use of ancient runes, carefully deployed,

    Should evoke the sacred tunes of the viewless void.;

         Or the casting of some spell, inside magic rings,

    Should permit the adept tell past and future things;

    Or the famed philosopher’s stones, (as once was told),

    Iron, lead and worthless brass should turn into gold.

Vanities!. All vanities!. Such conceits can’t bring success.

If you want your heart’s desires, sup the springs of selflessness!.