daydreams and dopamine

daydreams and dopamine

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You walk into my thoughts like light,

Soft and sudden, warm and bright,

And I, a creature born to roam,

Find in your gaze a kind of home.

My mind, a restless carousel,

Spins stories no one else can tell.

But when I dream, it’s always you,

The spark that turns my gray to blue.

You tilt the axis of my day

With just a smile, and slip away

Into the folds of reverie,

Where only dopamine and me

Can chase the echo of your name,

The scent, the spark, the phantom flame.

They call it chemical, a trace

Of neurons dancing into place

But science never wrote of you

The way your laugh can split me through,

Or how your silence builds a shrine

Inside this ever-wandering mind.

I see us in imagined scenes:

A balcony, some in-between,

The places where the heart expands

Beyond the reach of cautious hands.

You’re the sugar in my storm,

The lightning dressed in human form.

And though you’re just a ing thought,

You’ve stitched the calm I never sought.

If I drift, just let me be,

Adrift in serotonin seas,

Where every moment tastes like wine,

And daydreams end with you as mine.