emotional base//

Taken from the lovely textbook, Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues, by Michael D. Johnson in combination with Pearson. 7th Edition.

HERE lieth the limbic system, 

at the base of the cerebrum.

if every neuronal pathway passes through it

and the cerebral cortex

(complex decision-maker, we call it)

rests on top--

it makes sense why we attach emotion to most things

but upon the rush-on of full-fledged feeling

do our brains implode into themselves?

do they go deeper

function deeper pulsate 

deeper

in there: the green you

see in the diagram.

It would be, then, that counting Wednesdays--

running to a train 

mark a certain cranial ascendance. 

a focus on the decision making without the heart strings.

Our brain descends along with the sun--you nightcrawlers, don't you feel the midbrain buzzing?

at night I believe we press into ourselves

{and at the occasion of any midday quagmire}

iambic pentameter to limbic, if it gets you.

cranial activities sink with the sun.

imagine.