Cell Summer

[somedharmabum]

One lonely atom
Wandered the lonely alleyways
Of the empty side of the cell

Oh, giant empty cell!
Where are your prettier parts
And central cell station
Where there might be more atoms
swimming in the cyotplasm
dancing all around each other?

Further down the foreign avenues
The atom's little electrons spun slower
Because the heat of electric afternoon
Beat down as fierce
as Mitochondrion superconductor summer
No shade to hide from in these stifling avenues

On the violet horizon
Nucleic Metropolis
Churning and burning away the evening
The souls of a million other atoms
Lining and igniting the membrane
The comfort of a sea of strangers
Bonds stronger to one lonely atom
Than a lifetime of close friends

The plasm gives way
The membrane walls concave
A thousand universes a second
Pour through the honeycomb
And one lonely atom is sucked in
To a world of countless other lonely atoms
Mad orbit, reckless, helpless spinning

This is the order of the universe
Where haphazard, lonely atoms unite
And form haphazard, wild compounds
In an endless cell sunset
And everyone is alone
But nobody is lonely