In the orbital of my heart, you were the nucleus, the core of my affection, around which my emotions fervently spun. I was a bound electron, lost in the energy of your pull, a valence of vulnerability in the chemistry of us.
But reactions are fickle, and bonds can break. Your actions, catalysts of change, turned my trust to dust, and through the crucible of heartache, I found a new element within.
Now, I am a noble gas, complete in my shell, no longer seeking electrons to share. I drift, solitary and serene, through the vast cosmos of self-love. In this newfound state, I am inert to the allure of bonds once craved.
I have become my own molecule, stable and serene, a lone electron no longer lost in the orbit of another. Love, once the reaction I sought to complete me, is now a lab I no longer enter.
For in the periodic table of my life, I have transitioned from reactive to noble, finding peace in the solitude of my own element.
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