Your heart pounds molten lava,

Each nerve ending screams alive.

One thought consumes,

Like hooks beneath your skin,

Tearing reason to shreds.

Lust wraps itself in love's clothing,

A wolf in silk.

But strip away the pretense -

There is only flesh,

Only survival's ancient song.

Through evolution's lens,

Raw need grew sophisticated,

Trading desperate howls

For whispered promises.

Yet the hunger remains.

Chemistry chains us all -

Dopamine's sweet poison

Flows through lover's veins.

We chase the high,

Willing slaves to neural fire.

Soaring on passionate wings,

Until gravity claims its due.

The fall breaks more than hearts -

Reality cuts deeper than winter frost,

When heaven's gates slam shut.