Chemistry

Lithium or Ritalin or something 'xazid,
or 'azole - intensifies a lover,
accentuates a smile; will out the spirit,
overwhelm the wary new-comer
and make a summer of wondrous inhibition.
Or was it love's own chemical snare -
dopamine, serotonin, vasopressin -
that dilated our star-struck stare?
Yet something more to this cocktail of want,
our raison d'etre of desire: the void extant.
My late night boozed-up returns
to aching emptiness, and your yawning
vista of stark Sundays in little rooms.
How ripe we were for hoping, clasping, falling.