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Sodium and Chlorine

January 3, 2014
By theweirdworder DIAMOND, Newtown, Pennsylvania
theweirdworder DIAMOND, Newtown, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato


Sodium doesn't look like much;
it's so soft you can slice it like butter but
when you throw sodium in water,
it explodes.
Chlorine is kind of similar;
sometimes, in small doses, it has its uses but
when you spray chlorine out in an open field,
it's so corrosive it will shred your lungs apart.
Yet when you put the two of them together,
it makes table salt,
its sole electrons no longer lonely

as they blend together.
Do you think we can be like that,
two self-destructive people meshing together
to make something worthwhile
or will we just leave any more chaos in our wake?
There's only one way to found out.



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