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
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem