They made oxygen from moon dust
somehow squeezed air from
earth that isn't even
and if I understood this alchemy
I'd make the mirror tell you
your own story
but in language that wasn't painful
and at a volume that
turned the air to dust
made simple impossible things
mundane.

The real magic
is making you see the spell
instead of giving speeches
about speaking it,
snuffing the candles
while stealing the breath,
removing the shackles
with some better binding.