Poem2024-07-25T09:32:52+00:00

Love

By: Ras (T. K. U. Eitiko) Tafari

Love is not an on and off thing
Love is not a now and again thing
Love is not a hot and cold thing
Love is not an occasional thing

Love is not an irregular thing
Love is not an erotic thing
Love is not a once in a while thing
Love is not a now and then thing

Love is not a fitful thing
Love is not a haphazard thing
Love is not a sometimes thing
Love is not an infrequent thing

Love is not an anyhow thing
Love is not an in patches thing
Love is not a spasmodical thing
Love is not an uneven thing

Love is not a willy-nilly thing
Love is not an any-which-way thing
Love is not an uncommon thing
Love is not an unpunctual thing

Love is not a sporadical thing
Love is not an at intervals thing
Love is not a by fits and starts thing
Love is not an unmethodical thing

Love is not an out of sequence thing
Love is not a slapdash thing
Love is not a helter-skelter thing
Love is not a periodical thing

Love is not a disconnected thing
Love is assuredly not a jerky thing
Love is not an eccentrical thing
Love is most definitely not a fling

Now that we know what love is not
Or think we know what love is not
What is love that we have not
I would like to give it a shot

Love, as we can see, is omnipresent
Love's here and now and forever present
The tense of love is lastingly present
Love's yesterday, today- ever present