how do you write a poem about someone so close ...don't you already know what i feel and if you don't maybe i should check my feelings - Nikki Giovanni

...do you ever stop
to think what it looked like
before it was an avenue
...ever look south
...and see gazelles running playfully
after the lions
...did you ever, sit down
and wonder about what freedom's freedom
would bring
...the , Alonquin
and ... could caress
the earthever think what Harlem would be
like if our herbs and roots and elephant ears
grew...
the parrot parroting ...ever think it's possible
for us to be
happy

may i spin a poem around you
come let's step into my web
and dream of freedom together

...i believe
the most beautiful poem
...is your heart
racing