Catalyst

Catalyst
comes in
and things happen

Not her fault
Blame her parents
for giving her that name

Those were the days
eh? Hippies thought
a name could change the world

so kids were named
God and Peace and Rainbow
Catalyst

(Cat for short) comes in
on little catalyst feet
and what happens next?

A breach of contract
or an infidelity
Someone gets lost in her fog

and a chipped mind slides to one side
and falls into a dirty heap of shards
after she’s been there

There’s a bubbling wherever she goes
as stability becomes ferment
the substance of what she touches is changed

two become one
one becomes three
Catalyst is the same afterwards

always the same
Agile little Cat
with her hippie name

keeps her motility intact
as she turns her free spirit
to the next reaction