Defiantly Undefined
My love does not fit into a box
It dances around it, pulling it this way and that to form a new shape made by the touch of
our lips
My love is not a term created to pass a prison sentence, its rigidity pillars of right and wrong,
licit and illicit
The only ‘X’ I want to mark runs along your skin where my mouth leaves traces of passion,
not preference
I want to paint my own picture of you, one that is all the colours of the rainbow melting into
one as I fly across the pages of this thing they call love
Love is not words of constraint held in place by sticky labels that mean nothing to me but
everything to you
Love is not defined by boxes but by beats
1 beat for you whose fire I burned in, and 1 for you whose calm waves healed me
1 beat for you, the ground beneath my feet
My love is touching, breathing, feeling
It moves, weaves, dances in and out of the circle, creating its own routine whose sweet
patterns only I can make love to
I am my love, it is in the lips I kiss with, the hands I caress with, the eyes I see with; lips and
hands and eyes make better markers of judgement than empty terms used to hold
me back
Back from the girl I lost myself to, and the one I never had in the first place
Back from the boy who found me again
My love lies besides me on this continuum you have devised, but there is no beginning, no
end, only lovers transcending the lines
It is not assigned a letter, though you want it to B
Unless that B means belongs to me
Or beats in my chest
Unless that B stands for breathless, breath-taking love-making
For baring my body
And for blossoming in yours
My identity is raised from the path I tread along your skin, and made of fire and air and
water and earth
Fire deep inside ignited
And the air between our lips as we pause for breath
The earth holding me up
And you, the water, rising up to immerse me
My love is in laughter, in smiles, in dark eyes and tangled in dark hair
In rhyme and meter, in sarcasm and wit, in emojis and messages
It is not in categories branding me pink and purple and blue, though I paint my face so
My love defines me, but it is undefined