Oxygen
When you take your first full breath,
It’s sweet like the first rays of sun at dawn
Then you breathe your last in death
Just one more second, and then you’re gone
It ignites the first flame of the dry season
Purifying this earth with divine violence
We cleanse in fire for a reason
It leaves everything in barren silence
We first gathered around the warm glow,
Telling stories about how we got here
Since then, we’ve expanded on what we know
Now astronauts explore with shuttles in the atmosphere
When the air fills your lungs, think of your mother
For oxygen is an element like no other