Ode to the Modern Witch
a poem
🔮✨
I love you, virtual visionary
& how you livestream tarot readings on Facebook for a friends list full of skeptics
because you ran out of fucks to give
3 lives ago
I love you, alchemist of Amazon
offering gold ormus to the masses
in exchange for pixelated stars
I love you, aesthetic sorceress
who boldly displays
a Nazar amulet emoji in her Insta bio
because the evil eye IS real, okay?
fuck what you heard
I love you, witch doctor of Etsy
& your wormwood-skullcap-mugwort tea
made to lift-off the consumer to new levels of lucidity
so this time they can finally change the ending
of their recurring dream
I love you, ethernauts of r/astralprojection
& your sobering mission logs, like:
<day 4
tried to project into Area 51 again
ran into the astral soldiers
who guard the perimeter
can i get past them using an invisibility aura, do you think?>
I love you, wild imagineers who chime in
with quantum possibilities:
<nah dude, you gotta try astral projecting
backwards in time to a year when the military wasn't in on astral defense yet
THEN go inside Area 51>
I love you, belligerent projector
who kept trying, who got in,
who almost didn't get out
who now can't unsee what you saw
you did that for us
& we'll never be able
to thank you enough
I love you, anonymous immortal(s? plural?) who wrote the OneLight website
because holy **** that information is ADVANCED - and you gave it away for free???
whoever you are, you deserve your own verse
in this poem.
I love you, closet psychic friend
& your sunrise "I JUST HAD A DREAM ABOUT YOU" text
I love the love behind your "pls be careful" as you deliver an omen to my tired eyes
because real friends don't lie
and most psychics seek neither fame nor fortune
despite what James Randi wants you to think
I love you, all of you,
a secret society in full view
of literally anyone with an internet connection
I love how your authenticity vets
the unreal & unworthy, how your lightness
deters the dark & densified
I love how you hide in plain sight
how you always have
how you always will
how even after all the
burnings, hangings, drownings,
your soul, your gift, your 2020 vision is
still here
still here
still here
💜