Love Chemistry

Yesterday, we attended our niece's solemnisation. This was the second niece, on my wife's side of the family, to get married within the last six months. In view of this as well as the coming Valentine Day, it is timely for me to post this poem, which I first came across when I was in my secondary school. You need to know chemistry to appreciate it.

I am attracted to you
Like an electron to a proton Together we form an ionic bond
Though we are oppositely charged ions
I am drawn toward you

Falling in love with you is a chemical reaction
I have been transformed
When I first met you there was a chain reaction
Which caused my love for you to grow

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As my love for you increases
My energy level rises
I am in an excited state
Increasing the tendency to form a chemical bond

Ours is an exorthemic love

Each giving off love not just absorbing it

Sometimes you do something especially nice

Which speeds up the chemical process

Like a catalyst in my increasing love for you

I realize that we have our inhibition periods
and sometimes I am selfish enough
To be an endothermic reaction
Only absorbing your love
When you are gone I am a noble gas
An inert substance
When I am without you
The world seems still

The feeling I have for you is so intense
It cannot be measured in kilocalories

Often I have to make a qualitative elemental analysis
To understand and love you more
But I don't expext to know your empirical formula
You are too complex a person for that

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Our love is unique as an orbital
For only two electrons can fill this space. I was an element
It took you to make me a compound substance