Oxytocin

[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 at the time I learned about these chemicals, I experienced something for the first time that forever changed my life: NPEP graduation. It left me motivated to write my first poem.”]

Today,I experienced something thatI have neverin my lifeseen before —A GRADUATION.Seeing Brotherswalkacross a stagewas exhilarating,my mindawash with emotions,my adrenalinerushing,dopaminescoursing through myveins!Motivated byhistory made beforemy eyes,feelings I’ll never let go,forever seared inmy amygdala.My dayis coming.