An Alexandrite Talisman

We've met - millennia before,
the hierophants appointed me
to tend a living hero's shrine,
with rites to grant him safe return -
a priestess of a lost empire,
Aphrodite's sacred whore.

A thousand years ago, I handed you
your helmet and your sword,
and watched you ride away to fight
crusades for honour and just cause.

But now begins a cosmic age
when there's no further need
for wars - how shall I aid you
in your quest to found
a colony of peace?

Read these words with alchemy,
transform them into something fine -
alexandrite, crystalline, a talisman
as old as Earth, charged with aeons
of auspicious augury. Carry it close
to your heart, a symbol of your odyssey,
a token from our birth-planet
to warm you on galactic journeys.




*According to new-age cosmology,
the properties associated with
alexandrite include change,
transformation, creativity, beauty,
happiness, power, love, wealth,
prosperity, protection, renewal,
rebirth, regeneration, healing,
problem-solving, balance,
abundance, restoration
and spiritual growth.