Her blood is cyanide She cannot seem to hide She is light as helium She's strong as aluminum She is graphite carbon As subdued as boron Abundant as hydrogen But toxic as nitrogen She's precious as platinum Her skin is thallium In her lungs there is radon She is as rare as xenon Helpful as iodine Whose life is astatine's She is soft as lithium Her eyes are beryllium There is nothing I can do Already the tumor grew