Chemistry, a Mystery?

I have ever been a student of Chemistry

Wandering through a maze of atoms

Arranged into a series of stratums

But exit remained always a mystery

Kekule dreamt of slithering snakes,

Mendeleev stacking up periodic table

Curie finding isotopes that are unstable

The geniuses playing for high stakes

Chemistry after all is  advanced alchemy

By which we are perpetually stymied

But then life is a complex reaction

Of action, inaction and non-action

Fun is in playing the game

Even if the end is tragically tame