Regulated

Incomplete products of combustion

Mingle with my atmosphere

Rearranging molecular structures of the most necessary of life's force

Pop

Crackle

Hiss

Onomatopoeic representations concealing gifts of devastation

This invisible desert choked

Into visibility

Essential levels of my essence relieved to less than 21 per cent

Rapid exchanges become difficult while that essence toils

Greedily, I open up to reclaim that which I desire

Swallowing whole this chemical chain reaction that I lent my being to

Uneasily absorbing what was me, my essence foreign to myself, violence becomes my name

Fighting to keep, fighting to expel this noxious me- this wondrous poison

bonded and binding

Undying and killing