It's Just Love, NIkki Giovanni

It's Just Love, NIkki Giovanni

it’s just love
it won’t sweeten
your coffee
or ice your tea

it won’t grill
your steak
or bake your crusty bread

it certainly won’t
pour your olive oil
over your shredded parmesan / reggiano cheeses

it might make
you laugh

it’s just love
it won’t rub
your feet or your back
it won’t tousle
your hair
or paint your
fingernails Red

it might make you
want Red
fingernails
though
it’s only love

it has no coupon value
though it also does
not expire

just me
just you
just love

yeah

good for nothing
love

throw it away
when you get
tired of it

I thought this poem was beautiful and clean. I like that she's being ironic, it appeals to me b/c at first I wasn't sure if she was which made me examine the poem a little more. And I think people do get too caught up in what love is and is their relationship love, when it's really just you just me just love.