My Poetic Journey

Love is a Chemical Reaction

love is a chemical reaction.

I can’t make references to God

or some sort of heaven I found when I met you.

love is a chemical reaction.

I can’t talk about fate or a uniting of souls,

you know that.

love is a chemical reaction

Yes, a reaction of the brain,

and I am a person of science.

A long practicing Atheist

with a textbook as my bible.

I do not believe in soulmates, or some

spiritual desire to hold someone’s body

against my own.

love is a chemical reaction.

Biology class was my church

and,

like a prayer,

I repeated the words over and over again:

love is a chemical reaction.

but something in the way

my feet feel lighter on the pavement

when i’m walking next to you;

how your arm brushing against mine

sends electricity through my bones

(Even though I know it can’t be scientifically possible.)

Something in all of that makes me

second guess myself

in my denial of something outside

or protons, neutrons, electrons-

because maybe,

just maybe,

you’re proof enough.

By: Taylor Cusher 23/2/16