Love In Place by Nikki Giovanni

Love In Place

 

I really don't remember falling in love all that much

I remember wanting to bake corn bread and boil a ham and I

certainly remember making lemon pie and when I used to smoke

I stopped in the middle of my day to contemplate

 

I know I must have fallen in love once because I quit biting

My cuticles and my hair is gray and that must indicate

Something and I all of a sudden had a deeper appreciation

For Billie Holiday and Billy Strayhorn so if it wasn't for love

I don't know what it was

 

I see the old photographs and I am smiling and I'm sure quite

happy but what I mostly see is me

Through your eyes

And I am still you and slim and very much committed to the

Love we still have