photo by Alex Lear

IF YOU’RE STILL

THE SAME AFTERWARDS

IT WASN’T LOVE

(to nia, thanx for making me better)

to say

“i am touched

by you”

is to be

changed

            / into

a person neither of us

was before

entering the other

more open, a sun of sensitivity

emotionally nude, erupting joy

& willing to kiss life open mouthed

emoting the vibrancy of glow

endemic to souls in the flow

in fact, it’s even unscientific

not to evol

ve/not to love, not to 

grow & give back

the only humans who actually evolve 

are lovers

all others 

just simply fuck and reproduce

the transformation 

of touch

that’s all 

love is

—kalamu ya salaam