People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.
—Albert Einstein
It’s just biology
Genetics at play
Psychology, linguistics, haptics
The instinct for pleasure
for intimacy
for procreation
for evolution
It’s just chemistry
Falling in love
There is the pull of attraction
There’s the desire to touch
to kiss
to devour
to ravish
It’s just physics
The electromagnetic interaction of highly charged bodies
Matter behaving very badly
Craving action
combustion
a concatenation of the flesh
maybe multiplication
It’s all mathematics
Coming together
A quest for attachments
Seeking addition
diffusion that first requires reduction
as in two become one (and maybe multiply)
until spent energies necessitate division
It’s all science
All evidence sought by the senses
Acting out principles Einsteinian or Galilean
All subject to the laws of the universe
the fundamental interactions
the forces of nature
the theories pure and applied
It’s all an exploration
A field of inquiry that seeks answers
In numbers, in formulae, in procedure
Where often there is none
there is only ancient alchemy
there is only mythology
there is magic