A Chemist’s Love Song
Oh pretty most beautiful Sharlene,
spreading pink in my life like phenolphthalein,
your eyes, black as burnt sulfur,
in my heart, like an indicator, spreading colour,
Our love is like a hydrogen bond.
so close to each other as we are fond,
If you purify my heart by crystallization,
or extract it by froth floatation,
you will find your name as precipitates,
like fragments of carbonates and bicarbonates….
– Samira Waseem