Frank Witte - More than Chemistry

There you stand and wonder
did it come from here or yonder?
Would love submit to the laws of nature
moulded into some unknown alloy?
Or is it a substance with a different allure,
and no more that a fool's heart's decoy?
No you say, with a wink towards mystery,
it's about some deeper kind of chemistry.

But, afterall, what is this chemistry
More than physics with a bit uncertainty?
A mindless mixture,
no good without catalysis.
no room for catharsis
just a veinless venture.
What is chemistry more
than legend and lore.

So here you lie, feel puzzled
mindful of a question chiselled.
Is love submissive to the human lure
of rationalizing this mystery away?
Or is it a form of transcendence so pure
that there's simply nothing left to say?
No you say, with a wink towards misery,
it's about some sleeker kind of chemistry.

But, afterall, what is this chemistry
More than physics with a bit uncertainty?
No cosmological scale,
no room for relativity.
Painless in efficacy,
a low energy universe so stale.
What is chemistry more
than legend and lore.

Photons swirl through space and time
commuting between your eyes and mine.
Love is relational and constant interaction,
quantum states collapse under a lover's eyes.
It's a geodesic principle of least action
through the curved spacetime of two I's.
Wouldn't you say, with a wink towards our history,
that it could be deeper that any kind of chemistry?

Because afterall, what is this chemistry
More than physics with a bit uncertainty?

Frank Witte

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