Love changes the
Chemicals
In your brain
Fear floats away on clouds
Made of hearts
The war drums of self destruction
Silenced with a kiss

Love is ego death
For there is no “I” or “U” in love
Tendrils of attraction reach out
Joining you together into one
Your heart beating blood
Into the heart of your
Lover
And yourself, your pride
Disintegrates in your lover’s arms
On your lover’s lips

And did you notice how
When you loved
Every meal tasted better
Because you were
Across from your lover?
Like you were stoned
But the intoxicating substance
Was how your lover’s eyes would
Hold you within them
And the way you held your lover
In your iris

That it was akin to
Being drunk
When you reached over and
Grabbed your lover’s hand
Without thinking about how
You were reaching over to
Grab your lover’s hand
Call that love
Did you notice
How every song is about your lover?
And how every song
Is better because of that?
Where every word sung
Becomes an ancient epic
And every ancient epic
Is about your lover

Did you notice how the universe unraveled
When you were in love?
How the notions of the cosmos
How the essence of God
Became clear and digestible
And how concepts of hierarchy or conformity
Became dashed into the stones
Because who gives a damn
When in the arms of your lover?

Did you notice how you scrape together
All your change, all your dollars
And become a thief for love?
Your lover is a needle
Injecting you with
The essence of Heaven
And you are a junkie for your lover
Roving the world to bring your lover
The jewels of your life

Have you seen how you stand
Next to your lover?
Taller, more confident
You know all things
Your words sloshing out of you
With a swagger and confidence
Because damn
You figure you must be
The God of Gods
The King of Kings
The Leader of Leaders
If your lover chose to look at you with those eyes

Love is
Reckless adrenaline
Love is
Metaphysical understanding
Love is
Sublime comfort
Love is most of all
Intuitive, you always know
The truth of it
In your heart
And love strips
Language of its meaning
It’s undefinable
As all the best things are

I have loved, to come to know this
I have loved in the mornings and the nights
And every hour in between
I’ve loved in laughter
Loved in anger
Allow this to act
As my declaration of love