There is something about people’s saying that complicates love
This complication about love then goes on to complicate life
This is something my heart doesn’t yearn for and my mouth won’t pronounce
This complication is saying “I love you” when you don’t mean it
It grows in the heart like a planted seed when really it’s nothing
What I have realized is that the more you loosely use words, they lose their meanings
The experiences I have had make me too scared to allow these words leave my being
I can’t possibly tell you about the number of “I love you’s” that have left me with grief
I don’t think love has lost its meaning, but saying it has
Now the expression has little substance cuz of how almost everyone who says it act
Thereby leaving doubts about the authenticity of the words they once spewed
And because love has morphed the stomach’s butterflies into dragonflies,
Every time a person says “I love you” there’s this pinch in me,
Reminding you that these words are poisonous and shouldn’t be allowed in me
Look, it is not my fault that we both see love from different angles
Neither is it that people misuse the words “I love you”
I used to be a staunch proponent of the saying “I love you”
Now all I hear is a blabbering of three unrelated words in a sentence
Is it my fault that people can’t align their actions with their “love”?
Is it my fault that people won’t show you what they mean by their words?
Is it my fault that people would rather sound cool than be cool?
Is it my fault that these three words have almost never turned out to be true?
Maybe we should redefine how to express the love we feel inside
Maybe we need to say exactly how we feel rather than tell a lie
Maybe we need to be more accountable for what we say and the impact they have
Maybe, just maybe, when we can align our words with our actions
The dragonflies will return to butterflies and we will actually blush rather than feel pinched
By this time, the feelings from our words and our actions have synced
Authored by Jay Hoff & Chantal Gray
