Alarms explode. The walls resound.
I blast them all aside,
And glowing step by glowing step,
I move, my measured stride
Deliberate. I'm lacking pep.
Within, my blood and bones
Are ashes. Smoke that desiccates
Exudes with breathy groans.

She's here. My Rose. She agitates
The air and shakes the earth.
Recalling our experiment,
I know this strange rebirth
Consumed us both and left us bent,
A pair of matching things.
I tried to save her, pushed away,
But no. We're knotted strings.

Her only love, she'd always say,
Was me, and she was mine.
Together, bound and undeterred,
Our chemistry divine,
We reached. We grasped. We pulled. We heard
Creation sharply crack,
Releasing energies that swept
Us up and spit us back.

The protocols that intercept
Disasters did their best
To keep us separated. Still,
I'll never stop nor rest
Until I reach her. There! I thrill
To see her flaming form.
She takes my hand. We arc to ground,
And bloom, a spreading storm...