Water has… No natural enemies It is conduit for all types of energy Currently, it’s the current For current currency Even water is big business That’s a stream of income Compiled concurrently In fact… The only time we have beef with water Is when it’s cut off Or the heater won’t get it hotter Or worst-case scenario When it’s withheld or bartered For political fodder and the ever-present Indigenous slaughter Oddly, probably the only other sustainable substance Whose flow is just as important But as undervalued as H20 That is just as viable Just as reliable And indispensable for us… Cliché to say: LOVE Bastardized by never aggrandized Diminished like Africa’s size Riddled with conceptual why’s Also a Hallmark of enterprise A crest and fall Similar to tides Cuz, Love, much like water Has a limitless supply But all our salty sentiments Bled both basins dry So I decry Fxck love It’s an archaic language of anguish Fxck love When we wield it so shameless Fxck love When its absence is so dangerous Aimless weapon of the blameless Fxck love and all the watercolors With which we paint it Fxck love Fxck life Fxck subjective emotions Used to objectify Commodify and communicate commotion Fxck love if it’s used To validate hate And fxck love if it wasn’t Love in the first place Plus: we fxck like it’s love Cuss like it’s love Charge someone for taking all which Is us Gave them all of me And blame it on love Defaming love Blunt roach flaming love Deny the person but claiming love Like kids for tax credit Add Jay Z to the edit… This can’t be love Maybe what it was Is conflicted definitions Maybe when grown folks talked We should have listened Cuz love ain’t… Fiction Contradiction Addiction Affliction Condemnation over convictions Bound by genitals or gender Found in song or cinema Located in palisades, parkways or perimeters Legislated by senators Love is--- How Snoop look at indica The balance of embrace and freedom Water affords to peninsula The way Odysseus dreamt of Ithaca A new school of thought An evolved curricula A pick me of cosmic proportions But if used for extortion Cerebral contortions Or misuse of anything Deemed as important Then it can’t be a friend to me And as such, it’s stagnant water And thus, my enemy Fxck Love