Chemical Equilibrium (a poem based on Le Chatelier's principle)

The reaction went forward,

it then proceeded backwards. 

“What is going on?”, her agog brain wondered.

Beyond measure, she was bewildered.

A catalyst, little Luna wanted to add,

“but, what if the experiment then goes crazy bad?”

She waited, and waited, and waited.

Time ceased, even the isolated system had failed to please.

Where was it that Luna went wrong?

Right then, it hit her like a song;

- “the reaction is still going on!”

Howbeit, it is under equilibrium, she declared.

The entropy had lessened,

The reaction no longer hastened,

Little Luna had herself tightly fastened, as she jubilantly proclaimed;

- “anything stupendous could now happen!” 

by Aditi Vishwanath