Love Is a Hormone

Love is not pretty, it's hell and it's pain.
A feeling of anguish I try to abstain.

Love is cosmic, it is beauty divine.
It makes the world sing one hymn at a time.

Love is a beast who sinks a knife in my chest,
collapsed on the floor gasping for breath.

Love is an angel who engulfs me with warmth,
my senses explode my body transformed 

Love is putrid, a smell I cannot bare,
hurling and wrenching gasping for air.

Love is a perfume so sweet and radiant,
a pomegranate honey-suckled filled fragrant.

Love is my destruction, it is also my savior.
No medium or in-between dwell in this behavior.

Love is a hormone of madness and commotion,
either a red hot elixir or an icy cold potion.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Andresen Avatar
January 15, 2019 at 1:55 PM
- Perhaps love gets most to sing ... even without singing voice ... it's worth a try, Rebecca :) - We all deserve to experience true love, which makes us happy :) - Love sometimes hurts, but it never causes harm intentionally :) - In other words, to love someone good you must love yourself and be prepared for everything :) - Congratulations on your winning poem ... we all hunt for love :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
Ann Avatar
January 15, 2019 at 1:58 PM
Thank you!
May Avatar
January 15, 2019 at 10:46 AM
Congratulations on your placement my friend!
Ann Avatar
January 15, 2019 at 11:10 AM
Thanks!
Gondolf Avatar
January 14, 2019 at 2:08 PM
Love is fickle and maddening and confusing, and yet I wouldn't want to live without it. I think I'm a bit older than you, Rebecca, and it doesn't get any less confusing with age. Nicely stated my friend. John
Ann Avatar
January 14, 2019 at 2:47 PM
Thanks John!
Krutsinger Avatar
January 13, 2019 at 8:54 PM
I like the contrasts you put into this wonderful poem. You are a word master!
Ann Avatar
January 14, 2019 at 2:48 PM
Thank you!
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