Love
Love is the way your demeanor changes as I say goodbye.
Love is the way you stare at me as I drive by.
Love is the reason you get so angry I didn’t reply to your text.
Love is the reason we elevated past the level of just sex.
Love means you get happy when you see me do my dance.
Love is why you saw me as your man even when we were just friends.
Love is why you get angry when the world mistreats me.
Love is why my words impact you so deeply.
Love is why you’re scared of police lights
You ain’t do nun’ wrong but you wonder if I’ll be alright.
Love is why you find joy in helping me through my life.
Love is why I know you’d kill to be my wife.
Love is why you brought me food when I ain’t have none.
Love is why you’d give me your last just so I can have some.
Love is why you stayed by my side when I know you should have left.
Love is why no matter how many tears you cry, you don’t look at me with regret.
Love is when my trust in you is now greater than my lust for you.
Love is when you loved me before you knew I loved you too.
Love is when you did all those things you don’t usually do.
Love is “wya? I wanna see you.”
Love is “girl come back, I still need you.”
Love is you, for no reason, worrying about my health.
Love feels like you love me more than I love myself.
Love is when you the only one clapping for me, the only one who believes.
Love is why when I get good news, you the first one I wanna see.
Before love, I questioned if divine powers could really be.
Your love made me say Thankyou God confidently.
Love visited before and it left scars that cut deep.
I fell in love with myself and tried to be all I could be.
I lived life with no rules and only thought about me.
Your love is what made me begin to think about we.
-C. Swank
