Neon is rare on earth, hard to find. But I bet it’s harder to find any second of the day where your warm, monotone voice, reading an old picture book, doesn’t echo through my ears.
Did you know that after adding eight thousand volts of excitement to helium, it glows? Yet my own face lights up by counting down the slowly melting seconds, minutes, hours and days of excitement, leading up to your arrival.
Your own engraved dog tags, silver and shiny, metal magnesium, hang from neck like a personal reminder that you’re not too far away.
Arsenic is nicknamed Poison of Kings because it had been used to numb and **** royal family members. Although no poison in the world can numb the tingling sensation, that reaches to my toes, as your camouflage boots descend from the plane.
At this point the only thing that separates us is the carbon dioxide in our breathe and the oxygen in the thick, humid, Texas air.
So when I see your face the tears will rush out like water out of a faucet, simply because there is no scientific equation to explain how slow these thirteen months have passed.
In creative writing this week we had to write a poem using a subject in school. I chose chemistry-- the elements.