evolutionary love

What is love?

Is it safety?

Chemistry?

A burning need to touch,

taste,

crawl

inside

and bask in the glow of hormones?

Remembering your favorite food?

Someone to care for you when you’re feeling ill?

Give you the last cupcake?

Protect you from a cruel world?

Tuck you in and hold you close?

Caress the small of your back and hold your hand in the dark as you slip on the icy walkway? If you go down, you go down together.

Is that love?

Does it last,

or evolve,

into something less frantic and more comfortable?

A favorite pair of Jeans molded to your curves,

stretched just enough in all the right places.

Is it a cosmic connection?

Astral projection...

of souls?

Do we delude ourselves into thinking we’ve found it because it’s a feeling wholly unidentifiable,

myth or holy grail?

Who among us can be certain?

Show yourself.