Black Love

Black

adjective, verb, noun

Pertaining to various populations characterized by dark skin.

2. the color at one extreme end on the scale of greys. opposite of white. absorbing all light casting upon it,

i.e. black is lit as fuck!

3. black out

to lose consciousness

to erase, obliterate, and suppress

to find black beautiful only when it lives on Kylie Jenner

to find black beautiful only when it lives laying down,

to never kneel or march or walk or

only acceptable when cis-gender, hetero-sexual, and Christian

4. america

an illusion fooling it’s people to believe black is a monolith

a place continuing to profit on our pain

where black folk are still here; still re-defining what it means

to be black and in love

Love

noun, verb

5. sexual passion or desire.

(ex. See: resilience, See: liberation, See: Black Panthers, See: Stone Wall).

warm affection for another person.

love up

to hug and cuddle

to embrace

love be a nucleus so when black and love

conjoin you get yo’ life.

6. Black love

noun

south side of Chicago to South wing of the White House

Carolina girls, New York Yankees

b. jailhouse commissary turned hip-hop comeback

c. sacrifice

(ex. See: Mamie Till, the wedding Nicole Bell didn’t get a chance to have, See:

suicide notes turned marriage vows).

d. reasons to believe in poetry

e. my savior when drowning in doubts; Black love is its own faith

7. My black love

verb, noun

a born again miracle

caramel skin, bald, bearded

heart throb

kool-aid smile

throat clench, thigh grip

knees propped up on hood of a Nissan underneath the stars

It is the way they become a comet as we climax

the transformation after deciding to love on purpose.

8. People of the African diaspora

(ex. See: loud, infinite, and rhythmic).

rituals meet ratchet

hip-hop, salsa, merengue

forces sending planets into orbit

translucent and transcendental

Intersectional; intergalactic

to be radical and unconventional

not pertaining to grandmama’s backyard broom jump

but instead, grandmama’s back hand

9. we are verses of reclamations

love raising us up and holding us down

to mend wounds when healing

seems impossible

c. to love with our whole bodies

d Black love is holy

e. not of my family’s belief in Christ

f. still the closest to heaven we will ever find.

10. being Black

to live

to breath love

a wet pair of lips kissing horror in the mouth

to be more resistance than reason

to be the most revolutionary

thing this world has ever

seen.