(Definition: Limerence is a state of mind which results from romantic or non-romantic feelings for another person and typically includes obsessive thoughts and fantasies as well as a desire to form or maintain a relationship with the object of love and to have one’s feelings reciprocated.)

When the love bug hits

It’s a car crash,

We drag ourselves

As best we can to the side of the road

And back to reality

“She loves me she loves me not she loves me she loves me not”

And if when we were small

We hit our heads against a brick wall

With broken mothers

Incapable of responding to our needs

(Because of course their own were left untended,)

We drive around the track like a hamster in a wheel

Addicted to hopefulness

Never truly raising our expectation

Above the level of unrequited love.

Harsh words, I know,

But sobriety is hard won

And checking in with Goldilocks

Every time we race ahead,

It’s a good way to stay on track

On the way to something real,

Someone real.