Substance

You’ve gotten into my blood

when I never thought it would happen again

you’re changing the chain of my cortex

coloring the tempo of my beat

my pulse quickens deep within me

your smell stains me, it lingers in my air

long after you are gone

I long for you in a solitary ache

I linger with thoughts of you before dream

and you are my morning thought

when I finally return to myself,

still longing for the substance of your touch