Do Not Dismiss Science

Do Not Dismiss Science

My mother was a STEM undergrad

Who always told me

There is no beauty in this life,

Only molecules

She said love was nothing

Just covalent bonds

But why did time stop

Every time she hugged me

“Just your neurons firing “

She would always say

Continuing

Reading about cellular respiration

And how happiness is just a chemical reaction

The world is filled with rich juxtapositions

A motherly embrace

Something real or just Dopamine?

10th grade chemistry and the slow descent to hell

I hated learning science

I loved my mother

Science explained

How telescopes work,

But never the beauty

Of the planets