Mentoring

She actually didn't understand it at all,

the difference between desorption and 

diffusion, or the concept of residence time.

Regardless of extended discourse on 

molecular dynamics and the complexities

of interfacial chemistry on surfaces,

she didn't get this, in spite of the 

confidence and bravado, in spite of many

explanations, I'm not sure she even got it

then, what is this task called mentoring

it is mothering, the long task of teaching,

a labor of love, or something like that.