This Thing We Call Love

this thing we call
love is little more
than a few hormones
being released at once

it’s only a feeling
and it’s unquantifiable as
much as we want
to say i love

you this much and
stretch our arms right
open wide we can’t
because who ever tried

to give their love
a value like seventy
four times thirty one
it doesn’t make sense

but if love is
just a combination of
hormones why is it
that it feels as

though someone’s torn my
heart from my chest
with their bare hands
why does it hurt

quite so much and
if this thing we
call love feels this
way count me out