From the Mountains of the Sun

From the Mountains of the Sun

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From the Mountains of the Sun
From the Mountains of the Sun
Elixir

Elixir

A. Christine Myers
May 24, 2021
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From the Mountains of the Sun
From the Mountains of the Sun
Elixir
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What is this which I carry in my veins,
Elixir made of sunlight and of sorrow,
Throbbing with my breath against the dark world’s stains
To keep the sunlight burning till tomorrow?
Against the days of darkness I shall borrow
All the gold the sunlight deigns
To gift me, shall transmute it through the narrow
Beating of my heart, where my life still remains--
Etern…

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