Magic is not easy
not Presto-Chango
Hocus Pocus
snap your fingers
and all is changed
Magic is not easy
ABRACADABRA
will not do it
spin around twice
and all is changed
Nothing changes
nothing
Magic is not easy
nothing moves
unless the heart is in it
unless the will is in it.
Cutesy-pie
rainbow light magic
think good thoughts and all will be well
budges nothing
flits along
like a stifled titter unwilling or
unable to become a full laugh
Magic is not easy.
Listen,
everything is connected
everything
ignore that it will not compute
everything is connected.
If you would do magic listen
start here
everything is connected
nothing moves unless the heart is in it
unless the will is in it,
Magic is not easy
Simple words won't do
chanting the same song
day in day out every full or new moon
is not enough.
If the mouth is singing
"Hail unto thee Spirits of the South"
while the mind is humming
budgets and schedules and
where did I leave those keys,
this is not ritual
only rote
and we have more than enough of that.
Magic is not easy.
If you would speak magic
listen
Magic is fed by the heart
made manifest by the will. . .
It is always easier to invoke
what you have learned to name
External,
when the demons inside
the ones whose true names are
self-doubt and self-hate
have grown sufficiently strong. . .
When we will not
cannot
touch our own demons
we invent others
or worse
sing the name of demons
invented for us.
Magic is not easy.
If you would live magic
Listen
you must move beyond your pain
listen
you must turn and face your fear
listen
you must touch the demons
hold them
ignore your scorching flesh
(it is illusion)
cradle the flailing thing
cradle it
cradle it
Madonna with child
Madonna Madonna
Mother-gift
cradle your demon self
until you can love it into healing
Magic is not easy.