Poetry Challenge - Day 17

For today's prompt, write a science poem. Science encompasses a lot, so your poem doesn't have to be scientific to still be a science poem. For instance, you could have a poem titled something like "The Science of Love," and then examine a relationship. Voila! A science poem! Of course, it'll be interesting to see how many poets talk about volcanoes and single cell organisms, not to mention finding out how many "mad scientists" are out there.

Corrosion

For a close relationship to become a rusted relationship, three things are required: friends, lovers and ego. Here's what happens when the three get together:

When a drop of lovers hits a friends object, two things begin to happen almost immediately. First, the lovers, good catalysts, combine with social pressure in the gossip to form a weak suspicion, an even better catalyst for acidic entertainment. As the acid is formed and the friends dissolved, some of the lovers will begin to break down into their component pieces -- ego and pride. The free ego and dissolved friends bond into a friends oxide, in the process freeing gossip. The stories liberated from the caring portion of the friends flow to the overall sense of well-being, which may be a piece of a personal space less electrically reactive than friends, or another point on the piece of the friendship itself.

The chemical compounds found in liquids like actual passion or possible love, caring souls and the salt-loaded spray from snow-belt roads make them more active agents than pure lovers, allowing their presence to speed the process of rusting on friends and other forms of corrosion on other personal spaces.