it’s amazing the sheer number
of supernatural powers people
have attached to things over the
course of history

charms, temples,
talismans, totems

all forms of the same
misguided ignorance and
fear

it is funny to me that
I feel something when
given one myself

water

that’s all

water from the south of france
dug out of the moat of some a
church that’s older than legend
that surrounds it

supposedly, this vile of *****
fluid can heal, better than any
doctor or medicine

now I, and the person who gave
it to me, both doubt it’s powers

that doesn’t shake
it’s meaning

it was a token,
a gift,
from one sickened
soul to another

that’s touching

that
is
real

so perhaps that’s why
humanity has been giving
gifts like this since the
dawn of time

it’s not a magic, unnamable,
but the simpler wizardry of
friendship