Poetry About Hormones

Invisible messengers move through the blood without raising their voices. One small signal can alter sleep, hunger, heat, or grief. The body keeps a calendar written in chemistry. Adolescence arrives before language catches up with its weather. A test result gives numbers to months of feeling unlike oneself. Medicine adjusts the conversation molecule by molecule.

The body keeps a calendar written in chemistry. Cycles teach that repetition is never exactly sameness. Transition can make the mirror feel more truthful over time. No mood is simple merely because chemistry participates in it. We are bodies, histories, choices, and conditions together. Within each ordinary day, the hidden system keeps speaking.

Invisible messengers move through the blood without raising their voices. A test result gives numbers to months of feeling unlike oneself. Medicine adjusts the conversation molecule by molecule. No mood is simple merely because chemistry participates in it. Balance is a moving practice, not a silent perfect line. Within each ordinary day, the hidden system keeps speaking.