Saturday, June 12, 2010

Poem: If You're Still The Same Afterwards

POEM: IF YOU'RE STILL THE SAME AFTERWARDS

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


Kalamu ya salaam is one of the founders of the Southern Black Arts Movement.

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