Catalyst Sonnet

by: Ariana Strong

There is no noise here. Where my worries thrive. 
Where my dreams are destroyed by acid might. 
“Get a job in science to stay alive.”
I don’t want to. Stories I want to write. 
In my dreams when I think of you, I cry. 
My air thins. Chemicals bubble and stew.
Daily the beaker breaks. Soon, I will die.
I just might let it. But I don’t want to. 
I change. The chemicals are neutralized. 
Instead, it is I who bursts. My heart flees. 
Relief and love sparks. Fire catalyzed. 
Free liquid sodium slid down my cheeks.
I begin to write. “The sun shines sharper…”
There is noise here. My hopes and dreams prosper.