He Seven Pounds Loves Me

You’ll know it’s love when
All your poetry…
Wears your lover’s name…

When you can see his eyes
Peeking out from between a
Noun and a verb and you
Swear you just heard his voice
Reading your lines back to you…
When you wrote the words…
I love you…

You’ll know it’s love when
Everything you try to write
All brings you back to him…and
You don’t even care that
Everything sounds the same…
And that all your friends are so
Sick of hearing his name…but you…
Simply could give a damn…because
It sounds like melodious harmony
To your eager ears and it
Feels like sweet honeyed mahogany
To your hungered lips…and you
Simply want to say it
Again and
Again and
Again
And again
While he says your name too…

You’ll know it’s love when
Even though he pissed you off so bad
Even though you want to
Never speak to him again… you keep
Dialing his number to tell him so…
You keep… telling him how bad he hurt you…
Because the reality is…you love him so much that you
Really don’t want to walk away…and
You want to give him the opportunity to
Say the things that men are simply
Just too masculine to say…
But…he loves you so much that he
Says them anyway….
Which only makes you…
Know that it’s love even more…

And so you…
Know it’s really love when you
Start thinking about masculine seed planted in
Feminine belly…about abdomens getting all swelled and
About wedding bells and last name changes…and
You start questioning just how deranged this is…
And family members start talking shit…
And the two of you don’t even give a shit…
Cuz you know it’s really love when you
Are gone of some Romeo and Juliet
Type love and shit…some…
I would die for you type shit…

And you…really know it’s love when…
Doctor’s say that you’re really sick…and
Your lover says…I don’t give a shit… when…
Your lover says…I love you like… that old movie
Type shit…I love you like… that Shakespearean shit…
I love you like people used to love, baby…
I won’t ever leave you…I got you through it all, baby…

And when you ask…

Do you… Seven Pounds love me?

And he says…
Yes… I Seven Pounds love you…

THAT … is when you know it’s love….
When your lover tells you…
He would die…to save you.