We Dreamed to Love

On this concrete playground we dared to look above, we found love

When the world around us was falling apart; gun shots and heron tore our hood apart

We only heard Ellington and Coltrane

See we were both artist and this kept us from going insane

I was a poet and my man he played the sax

He blew his breath into my pearls with his mouth piece; never dropping his jaw to take a breath

He sipped on my essence as I gave him my innocence

The proof of his love was his passion to pleasure

We made beautiful music together

As he caressed my “Jade Princess”,   I time traveled and felt like Isis

Drinking from the Nile, he always made me smile

As we bump and grind every single time he blew my f’ing mind

Orgasms collided and our spirits aligned

Just close your eyes and listen……

Love sounds so sweet like BB King’s jazz beats

We were surrounded by Billy Holiday Blues, but the words of Nikki Giovanni kept us in tune

Just like our ancestors

We would build daily under our son God; taking totes of polluted air as we got high

We stole secret kisses and planned our great escape

The fallacy of a better reality was at stake; this special bond we would never break

As we held hands and watched birds take flight, dreaming it was us and we held each other tight

I would be on stage one day, and my prince he would be playing on Broadway

In the words of Ice Cube it was a good day

Sipping on red wine as we watched the sunset, craving fresh air and dancing clouds

We had uncommon dreams that required uncommon patience

Our hard times and struggles would soon be a blur

We knew where we belonged so we refused to adapt to where

We were!