Life Without Oxygen
Love is not love,
but chemical reaction;
neurotransmitters bathed in endorphins.
People lie because they choose it,
medicate themselves against barren truth:
there can be no life without oxygen,
no faith without physical remedy,
no union of two souls
without the rush of electricity to the brain.
Show me beauty;
I'll show you spinal impulses
to blind the eye.
Tell me a story of two lovers
with mutual admiration and respect;
I'll try to forget that wishes are acids
numbing the brain
to all things cruel and ugly.
Copyright © Dale Gregory Cozart | Year Posted 2017
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