Love Poem: Scientific Treatise
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Written by: Rose Melo

Scientific Treatise

If love is a chemical reaction in the 
brain
If attraction is simply chemistry
If the right substances binding and 
exploding,
Combining and conquering,
Coursing through my effervescent 
adolescent veins,
Conquering my conscious and 
unconscious actions,
Consuming and possessing me, 
caressing me,
Turning my blood against my better 
judgment,
Compelling me toward a clearly 
catastrophic,
Clearly cathartic and exotic end,
Can make me a doe-eyed, 
endearing lunatic,
Then...

If I'm just along for the ride on a 
careening mind trip,
Then let me stop to sniff the 
flowers.