The pages brown and crisp turn

Careful to read what the scroll will unfold

When despair meets opportunity

And all the noise surrounding falls silent

Mesmerized by the glow and the power

To combine and create and bend reality

Give in to the desire

Become the unimaginable

Beauty, time, luck and awe

Clouding reason, soon too strong

Swift to mix another batch

Flawed, but still indulged

Grotesque addiction unable to see

The world as it was has faded, all black

Taken by the glimmer

Spines cracked to opened charms

All consumed, yet bewitching even so

To escape?

Or embrace?

Magic comes with a price, are you willing to pay?