Oxytocin

By James Hale

[Author’s note: “I wrote this poem for a final chemistry presentation, in which I chose to present about chemistry that deals with our emotions: cortisol, adrenaline, oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin. It just so happened that at the time I learned about these chemicals, I experienced something that I’d never been to before that forever changed my life: NPEP graduation. It left me motivated to write my first poem.”]

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Today,

I experienced something that

I have never

in my life

seen before –

A GRADUATION.

Seeing Brothers

walk

across a stage

was exhilarating,

my mind

awash with emotions,

my adrenaline

rushing,

dopamines

coursing through my

veins!

Motivated by

history made before

my eyes,

feelings I’ll never let go,

forever seared in

my Amygdala.

My day

is coming.