Laws Of Love Of Inertia After Nikki Giovanni Poem by Ravi Kopra

Sometimes I want to touch you and be touched in
return. But you think I'm grabbing and I think you're
shirking and Mama always said to look out for men like
you

So I go to the streets with my lips painted red and my
eyes carefully shielded to seduce the world my reluctant
lover

- from The Laws of Motion - Poem by Nikki Giovanni

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Sometimes I want to touch you and wish you touch me in
return.

Sometimes I want to kiss you and wish you kiss me in
return.

I wish to walk close to you and say: hi,
how are you?

Unbeknownst to you I have been closely
following you.

If I do not approach, I do not think you
will.

And if I do, and you reject
me

What will it do to my dil?

Will my dil be doomed for love
forever?

I do not know even though it
says:

Go ahead, don't be a
coward.

But I do know this:

Heart unmoved in love, always stays
still.

By Nikki Giovanni's laws of love of
inertia.


dil= a hindi/Urdu word for heart