Suddenly
I was shrunk to the size of a molecule.
Looking around I saw a delicious landscape
Of sun-soaked meadows and rolling hills,
Where rainbows sprang, dripping with colour -
The Land of Atoms!
They clustered around me,
Floating balls that jostled and chuckled
And changed colour in psychedelic glee.
They bid me join them,
At first friendly, then forceful, like obstinate children.
Frightened, I ran,
A cloud of multicoloured balloons bouncing and giggling in pursuit,
Swirling past and around like a swarm of swallows.
So I grew
To the size of a mountain,
And strode over rivers and hills,
Through interdimensional byways,
Back to my own world.
And so I know as well as anyone
The danger of meddling with the power
Of the atom.
