The day I met you,
I knew I found my missing piece.
That moment when you held my gaze,
Piercing into my soul,
Stimulating my brain’s pleasure centre,
Causing dopamine and oxytocin to charged through my brain like lightning,
And my heart to thud.
I love you with every cell in my body,
With every atom that makes up every cell,
And the nucleus and neutrons that make up those atoms.
With all the strange quarks and hadrons,
And what comes after that in my body.
If only you could,
Grab my heart right out of my chest,
Hold it in your hands,
Feel the thrum of my pulse,
Examine it like a surgeon
You’ll see how my heart palpitates for you.
If only I could be a specimen,
Cut me open,
Gaze into a microscope,
Look every microscopic piece of my heart,
You’ll see how my love for you multiplies like mitosis.
What is a 4 letter word?
When what I feel for you,
Is more than this world,
And all that it contains.
Darling, I love you more than life itself!
Asiya Yahya is a 400-level student of microbiology, studying at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi. She loves writing poetry about the inner sayings of the mind. She has this longing to understand how humans tick. She’s a Fulani by tribe and from Plateau State.
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