Love Sciences
Love Sciences
By Mark D. Stucky
If romantic love requires “chemistry,”
how elemental for love is physics?
Negative and positive charges
lustfully attract one another.
But proceed with caution!
Matter and antimatter
explosively combine and
annihilate each other!
Could other science disciplines
facilitate our quest for love?
Could linguists of love
teach us shared languages?
Could astronomers of love
chart love’s celestial paths?
Could cartographers of love
map out love’s landscapes?
Could biologists of love
catalog love’s varieties?
Could ecologists of love
optimize love’s environments?
Could botanists of love
cultivate love in fertile fields?
Could pathologists of love
determine causes when love dies?
Our divided, hostile world
requires love applications
to bridge countless gaps
of misunderstanding
and to bandage bleeding wounds
battered by apathy and hate.
Could love sciences
supply solutions?
Could we educate everyone
in the engineering of love?
(Originally published in Small Town Anthology Volume X: Entries from the Tenth Annual Tournament of Writers, Vicksburg Cultural Arts Center, 2024, pp. 56-57. See also my poems “The Invention of Love” and “Tweeting the Truth in Love.”)
(Image by Alexander Sinn on Unsplash.com.)
Copyright © Mark Stucky | Year Posted 2024
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