Reading this as a biochemist, I’m struck by how perfectly you capture the alchemy of human connection: the transformation of energy, bonds breaking and forming, the subtle reactions between presence and absence. “Emaciated chemistry” versus “satiated chemistry” reads almost like a molecular reaction: the exothermic collapse of desire, the endothermic cultivation of self, the equilibrium finally shifting in your favor. Every line pulses like a neuron firing, like molecules finding their optimal configuration: raw, precise, and inevitable. The way you map emotional thermodynamics onto lived experience is brilliant.