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RESIGNATIONS

I love you
because the Earth turns round the sun because the North wind blows north sometimes because the Pope is Catholic and most Rabbis Jewish because winters flow into springs and the air clears after a storm because only my love for you despite the charms of gravity keeps me from falling off this Earth into another dimension I love you because it is the natural order of things

I love you
like the habit I picked up in college of sleeping through lectures or saying I'm sorry when I get stopped for speeding because I drink a glass of water in the morning and chain smoking cigarettes all through the day because I take my coffee Black and my milk with chocolate because you keep my feet warm though my life a mess

I love you
because I don't want it any other way I am helpless in my love for you It makes me so happy to hear you call my name
I am amazed you can resist locking me in an echo chamber where your voice reverbrates through the four walls sending me into spasmatic ecstasy

I love you
because it's been so good for so long that if I didn't love you I'd have to be born again and that is not a theological statement I am pitiful in my love for you
The Dells tell me Love is so simple the thought of you sends indescribably delicious multitudinous thrills throughout and through-in my body

I love you
because no two snowflakes are alike and it is possible if you stand on tippy-toe to walk between the raindrops

I love you
because I am afraid of the dark and can't sleep in the light because I rub my eyes when I wake up in the morning and find you there because you with all your magic powers were determined that I should love you because there was nothing for you but that I would love you

I love you
because you made me want to love you more than I love my privacy my freedom my commitments and responsibilities

I love you
`cause I changed my life to love you because you saw me one friday afternoon and decided that I would love you

I love you I love you I love you

BY: NIKKI GIOVANNI





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