I am helpless in my love for you It makes me so happy to hear you call my name I am amazed you can resist locking me in an echo chamber where your voice reverberates through the four walls sending me into spasmatic ecstasy I love you because it’s been so good for so long that if I didn’t love you I’d have to be born again and that is not a theological statement I am pitiful in my love for you. I love you because I am afraid of the dark and can’t sleep in the light because I rub my eyes when I wake up in the morning and find you there because you with all your magic powers were determined that I should love you because there was nothing for you but that I would love you. I love you because you made me want to love you more than I love my privacy my freedom my commitments and responsibilities I love you ‘cause I changed my life to love you because you saw me one Friday afternoon and decided that I would love you I love you I love you I love you
Nikki Giovanni

















