Alchemic Verse

Enervating
Each bond breaking
Separating
Atoms weathered
Matter tethered
Split its fetters

She’s in tatters
Former and latter
To whom it matters

Phases changing
Uncreating
Sublimating
Ions decay
Backing away
“She’ll be OK”

Safe from splatter
Still staring at her
Denial flatters

State transitions
Fiery fission
Blinds her vision
Energetic
Bursts kinetic
Cries frenetic

So she shatters
Enthalpy scatters
Yearning to matter

If seen up close
Smolder of host
Contorted ghost
But in new eyes
What distance hides
A light still writhes

And sees what matters