I used to use the word love indiscriminately

I would punctuate awkward pauses with

Uh…I love you

Like a long lost, but now oft used participle of speech

You see, I’ve been burned so many times before

That I made a vow I’d never say it again

But that was before we found each other,

Which is funny because we knew each other

For two years, but now we’re lovers

And "oops, I did it again"

So now I’m falling like Michael Strahan tackled me off the space station

As if that Alicia Keys song was the only one stuck in Girl Talk’s head

I keep on, I keep on, I keep on

Falling; in love with you

We swap spit like wine at the last supper of Christ

And unlike Peter, I’ll never deny you

They say she rested, but on day 7

God was bored and made you in her image

Molded not from clay,

But from laughter and a prehistoric episode of ANTM

My love, she’s got more energy than cold fusion

And more heart than Hallmark on cupid’s birthday

No one can make a hurricane

Like her and I can

So in the gale force winds of affection

On the fogged up mirror of my jaded mind

I scribble ylenoL, reflecting the way I felt before I had you

But I’m lonely no more, shook to the core

Because as long as I live, you will be mine

As love lives the lovely life of loving within me

Her and I, sitting in the sun

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

I used to F-U-C-K

But she taught me again how to L-O-V-E

So like Hezekiah Walker

"We Made It!"

I used to give love IOU’s

Now, instead I annotate 143’s

Peddled in SMS, day and night

She’s the heroine of the animated pages of my life

Ripping open her blouse to reveal the most beautiful…

Uh… S, the likes of which Superman has never seen;

S for the sweetheart she is, but won’t let me call her

‘Cause that’s what her dad used to say

It’s like I have a chain of xoxox securely fastened about each wrist

On my knees, enslaved by her kiss

Rough, like the way she bites my lip

And no matter how I pin her down, she’s always on top…

Of things,

Knowing she’s at my side, I stand invincible

Forged of love in passion’s crucible

Your affection renders me untouchable

The ripe colors which stain from my dreams of you are unfadeable

Lush whispers render sweetness;

The once unknowable to the already known

Leaving me aware of the love I already own

Waking, I remember your smell

The effervescent reminder that I’d walk through hell for you

Riding on soles formed of the soul you retaught me to feel

Hermes wings, faithfully affixed to each heel