elements

If there was a calculus
    that measures the weightless
elements of feel
  what would we
          see?

Is sadness the weight of
     a mote of dust,
       a lost penny,
        an engine block
          seized up with rust?

Is hope a lithium-weighted
   metal, angelic and
     brittle?
a speck of magic..

And then there is anger.
 Anger is not a noble gas
     some might say it's like sodium
reacting in unpleasant, unflinching ways
         most likely, metallic
     It's probably magnetic
attracting resentment,stubbornness,
         and jealousy
but it's necessary
     as a catalyst

                If hydrogen is the most plentiful
      of physical elements,
         here, anger can't be far behind
   
             using the isotopes of anger
 can fuel fires of change
    when with hope or love combined
that new molecules arrange
       stainless bravery
shiny integrity
         the lead of endurance
heavy and sweet to the taste

  In this idiotic forge
      things get broken
and polished at the
         same time

Like arsenic,
   carry yours with you in
the ironwork of your bones
    giving you shape and
            the armor of
    resistance

some day, some alchemist
     pulling the plug on science
             might
coax it into gold,
   but I doubt it
           would be half
              as valuable