intoxicating

you fall in love, it’s intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like
you’ve actually become one with the other person.
merged souls, and so on. you think you’ll never be lonley again.
 only it doesn’t last and soon you realize you can only get so close,
 and you end up brutally disappointed, more alone than ever,
 because the illusion—
the hope you’d held on to all those years—has been shattered.

man walks into a room by nicole krauss

making a scene, W magazine, willy vanderperre, via +