Breaking the Bonds
Chemistry Between Lovers
My mind is a muck
Of molecular bonds and interconnections
Among neurons that constitute
Consortium of notions
Of you
***
Neurons firing together
Wiring together
Make itineraries for feeling
You
***
We-together
Are mapped out for me
Along gyri that fold inward
Like a map in a glove compartment of the car
On our roadtrip
***
Each skull creates a universe
And synapses fire in tandem
In the lovers' common universe
Where cosmic inflation reaches for asymptotes
***
Gray matter matters
When a walk through the sulci
Is a walk with you
Things that speak without saying
Things evident without encountering
Songs heard without hearing
***
Muscle memory misnomers
The rote that lovers live without thinking
Like the next song anticipated
In the four seconds of silence between tracks
Expectation ticks along
And interruptions do not set well
***
Away from you, insufferable abeyance
Anticipation unrequited
Raises tension that begs the relief
That completed synapses engender:
Relief of you
Relief of us
Relief of together
Failures of such destroy the third universe
Our universe
And emotional memories misfire into the void
On endless aimless journeys:
Void hurts.
About the Creator
Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. In Life Phase II: Living and writing from a decommissioned church in Hull, MA. (Phase I was New Orleans and everything that entails. Hippocampus, behave!
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The science lurking behind togetherness and desire is rendered wonderfully. I loved "Iced Coffee" too.
Inspired by https://vocal.media/poets/iced-coffee-ecuk0dtu "Iced Coffee," by Ava Mack