A Pharmacy of Feeling*
I am incredibly grateful for my neurons, which deliver both joy and melancholy
Life would be less rich without them
Without a healthy hippocampus I could not memorialize a perfect past weekend
Without healthy frontal lobes I could not imagine a future together
An ample store of serotonin lets me laugh in bed
And my synapses fill with vasopressin when I suck the air out of you
Oxytocin is the chemical of commitment, and I have plenty
My axons and dendrites fire to arouse me
and usually calm me down when they must
My limbic system is wet with dopamine, so I can read the nuances in your eyes
and feel your happiness
and draw on your strength
I am grateful for endorphins and catecholamines and the whole chemical orchestra
that has allowed me to welcome you into my life

*I like your words more