Limerence
Less than love, and a disease, is limerence because
Infatuation rules the heart; obsession is the state,
Madness overtaking one who longs for love’s sweet buzz.
Enveloped by emotions, the lovesick cannot wait!
Reciprocation of his feelings is for what he yearns.
Excitement builds. Euphoria he thinks is coming soon.
Next thing you know, his ecstasy to melancholy turns,
Catapulting the infected into utter gloom!
Ephemeral are feelings that without trust's glue spell doom.
July 14, 2016 for the Limerence poetry Contest of Nayda Ivette Negron
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