The love that makes a human long,
Cultivates hope, inspires song,
Is said to live within the heart,
Embedded from the very start.
It runs within the nervous system,
Textbook biomechanisms.
Neurons strengthen when reused,
Synapses reinforced and fused.
Dopamine increases drive.
Reward pathways connect and thrive.
Norepinephrine shifts the rate
At which the heart now fluctuates.
Oxytocin bonds mark their place,
Through touch, through trust, through warm embrace,
Vasopressin serves to maintain
Attachment tracts within the brain.
Each pathway fixed, each signal timed,
Just like a poem’s formal rhyme.
It follows rules of stress and sound.
Its structure can be broken down.
Yet what cannot be fully named
Is what gives language weight and aim.
Words may point to roles and parts,
But data cannot show the heart.
For hearts in cardiology
Are not the source of poetry.
The beating organ moves the blood.
But does not write and does not love.
About the Creator
Siege A.
A neuroscience student with fantastical ideas that have no place in science (at least not yet:)).
Belle of the Bayou
Bad move, cher. Not just the slip of her kitten heel on the rainy February cobblestones in the Fourth Ward. She got caught snooping. Detective Deleon clucked and strutted like a rooster in his rush to clear her from the scene, waving cigar smoke to and fro as he gesticulated amid the thick air of the speak easy. An experienced crime reporter, Marie knew better than to let the coppers catch her on the wrong side of the line, but curiosity had gotten the better of her.
By Maia Gadwall the metAlchemist3 days ago in Fiction
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