From the silence of the void, I, the first flame, danced
And in that spark, the primordial spirit of the cosmos glanced
I wrote the first laws in a trinity of breath
Hydrogen, the father, defying cosmic death
From his fusion fire, a second son was born
Helium, the noble heir, to greet the stellar morn
In my first dying stars, a fragile core took hold
Lithium, beryllium, boron, a story to be told
Then from their ashes, rose the pillars of all life's design
Carbon's bones, nitrogen's soul, oxygen's breath divine
And to protect the nascent worlds, a final breath was drawn
The fluorine-neon LINE was crossed, a brand new age had dawned
In the heart of nebulae, my suns awoke in fury
Forging the blood of mountains, sodium to aluminum's glory
They burned with magnesium's white fire, with silicon's bright lust
With phosphorus and sulfur's light, and chlorine's caustic trust
The noble gases watched in silence, a court of silent kings
From argon's calm to krypton's gleam, on ethereal wings
And as the stars grew old and fat, their heavy hearts beat on
With potassium and calcium, until their light was gone
The first age of the metals, from scandium to zinc
Titanium shields, vanadium blades, upon creation's brink
With chromium's sheen and manganese's art, the Iron Age began
The age of cobalt, nickel, copper, the destiny of man
From gallium's grace to arsenic's kiss, from selenium to bromine's tear
The thirty-six foundation stones banished all primal fear
Behold the cosmic forge, the fire and the frost!
The hundred eighteen pillars of a universe born and lost!
From stellar genesis to the ashes and the rust
In this elemental saga, our sacred fate is dust!
The supernovas bled their souls, a treasure and a curse
From rubidium's soft promise to strontium's fire, and worse
They whispered ancient names of power, from yttrium's sharp fang
To zirconium and niobium, a world-creating pang
The fleeting, cursed tear of technetium, the first to fade away
Then came the heavy princes, ruthenium to silver's silver ray
From cadmium's poison to the shifting heart of indium and tin
The caustic touch of antimony, where sorrows new begin
With tellurium's dark secrets and iodine's deep stain
The noble courts of xenon and of cesium wept in vain
For in the hallowed ground now slept the earth-spirits
A silent, dreaming host
The ancient lanthanides a litany of ghosts
From lanthanum to lutetium, their fifteen souls took flight
While hafnium, tantalum, and tungsten's might prepared for endless night
From rhenium to platinum, from gold to mercury's dread
The toxic touch of thallium, the heavy soul of lead
From bismuth's curse to polonium's phantom, astatine's brief storm
The final breath of radon gave the terror its true form
In the world's deepest heart, the chained titans dreamt of ruin
The fleeting sigh of francium, the genesis of radium
The dread of actinium, of thorium's ancient right
The fear of protactinium, and uranium's dark light
Then man walked upon the world and in his hubris, sought to be a god!
He unearthed the abyss of neptunium, unleashed the doom of plutonium's rod!
He created what should never be, the unholy, artificial race
From americium to lawrencium, he scarred the cosmos' face
And branded the abyss with his arrogant names!
Rutherfordium! Dubnium! Seaborgium! Bohrium!
Hassium! Meitnerium! Darmstadtium! Roentgenium!
Copernicium! Nihonium! Flerovium! Moscovium!
Livermorium! Tennessine! And the final, soulless god
Oganesson