This friendship knew a friendship brewed,
A list of truths so long and trued.
Spells and bound by what could be,
I was in for witchery.

In the nights I'd felt such pain,
Magic turned that hurt to gain.
And 20 years of nicotine,
Disappeared and I am clean.

"He's a trickster" I was told,
"Magic tricks turn steel to gold".
I learnt of friendship alchemy,
In the days of '23.

To be deprived but yet so whole,
Full of fear but in control.
To know life's short so early on,
And stepping out of civil con.
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