Endorphins

How endorphins work is that they make you feel less pain if you were to get hurt. This is the feeling you have when you first fall in love.

Endorphins
by Regina K. Pride

 

We push through pain
holding onto the grains that
tied us together from the day
you said
"there is no other
place I'd rather be."

 

You release the endogenous opioids in me,
calm my nerves, and
lighten my heavy head.
Visions of lying atop the open air,
levitating like birds do.
Then you stretch those nerves
farther than a thousand yards
until I lose face
and I do the same to you.

"It's meant to be," someone once said
holding the hands of their worst
enemy and friend:

The reason
we walk this earth
searching for the one
to match our happy ending
to some fable we learned at bed time.

I'd pray on my knees
and hope that one day
I would have someone to share the pain.

With these new emotions
there is no pain
therefore there are no tears
when the fire gets too hot,
the flames too unruly.
I simply walk amongst them
like I have invincibility.

Author's Note

what needs to be fixed?