Now
You are a free oxygen radical,
you set the chain reaction
and there are more of you than I can
detoxify.
Then
I breathed you in-
-voluntarily;
you were always there,
at the end of the electron transport chain,
you broke apart
to accommodate my capricious protons
and you changed state;
for me.
Now
I am in oxidative
s
t
r
e
s
s
as you are colliding
your way through my melanocytes -
and my skin is draining white
and my eyes are burning red.
Jul 28, 2013
Jul 28, 2013 at 8:24 PM UTC
Now
You are a free oxygen radical,
you set the chain reaction
and there are more of you than I can
detoxify.
Then
I breathed you in-
-voluntarily;
you were always there,
at the end of the electron transport chain,
you broke apart
to accommodate my capricious protons
and you changed state;
for me.
Now
I am in oxidative
s
t
r
e
s
s
as you are colliding
your way through my melanocytes -
and my skin is draining white
and my eyes are burning red.
Some of the lesser romanticised forces of nature
