To hold a relic
Wrapped in old
Scotch tape
Knowing it soon
Will become
A trace
Of chemistry’s
Mystique
With no way
To save it
But by advanced
Analytical
Methods
Does that
Dilute its
Potency
Or does
Dissolution
Advance
The power
Spread its flowering
Flour into bread
Can analysis
Enable flow
Like dialysis
Who’d know
T. M. Shorewick 