No Tiptoe Love

I don’t want no tiptoe love

No get me giddy or I get shy when you show up love

I don’t want no butterflies in my stomach type love

No I can’t look you in the eyes because my throat gets dry and my cheeks turn red,

No re-playing our contact sessions and regretting unsaid thoughts & feelings when alone in bed

No getting tongue-tied or because you ignored my text I cried

Then ignored you back because I allowed my pride

No conventional kind of love

I don’t want Bonnie & Clyde, I want above   

I don’t want no uncertain about your feelings towards me love

No you getting in my head just because you know you’re suave

No you acting passive because you think you’re tough

I don’t want no tactics love 

No scheming or plotting on me love

I don’t want a shifty or shady type of love

No second-guessing or disruptive love

I don’t want no mediocre love

No original

No ‘normal’

No complacent love

I want a crazy love

The, you don’t got to hassle me about what I’m thinking

Cause telepathy already has our minds linked in

I want a – gush out like the pillars at Katse dam broke down

And as I would in the water, get lost in your love and drown

I want a- because I’m your Queen you will always protect my crown

A soak me up with happiness and hose down my frown

A squeeze my bum and act like it wasn’t you when we walking around town

Or you drop the verses while I lace you with the beat like Kev Brown

-Type of love

I don’t want no tiptoe love

No innocent love

No pristine love

No unscathed love

I don’t want no easy love

I want a, waters run deep type of love

A stand the test of time and turmoil love

I want a ‘lets be friends first’

Because we have the rest of our lives to catch up on the rest

An eternity to explore one another’s’ crest

I want a, it almost feels like incest

Because we bond like siblings kind of love

I want a, curse the sh!t out of each other when acting like arses love

I want a destroy that bottle of wine and cuddle on the couch until we pass out love

A ‘lets play 30 seconds by ourselves so that when we invite our friends over we already know which hints to drop for which words’ love

I want a lets free up our afternoon schedules, go out for coffee so we examine contexts and themes from NoViolet Bulawayo’s ‘We need New Names’ in detail type of love

Or because the new Nas album just dropped, our entire universe stops so that we give it a thorough bump and then rate it kind of love

A lets take long drives out to sit in solitude with the mountains type of love

An explorative love

A curious love

A revolutionary love

A learned love  
  
A spiritual kind of love

I want a competitive love

Not the who loves one more than the other in this relationship love

But inspire me to be better tomorrow than I was yesterday

The, you’d laugh your eyes out if I ever fell in front of you but I know I’ll get you back when you pull the push door

The, my Nae Nae moves are slicker than yours yet we both know we look stupid

The, we arm wrestle because I convinced you I’d win but I don’t

The, lets compile a list of male and female duets and hear who sings their part better

The, race me from the parking lot to the entrance of the mall

-Sort of love

I don’t want no ordinary love, no stale love

I want an extraordinary love, an impenetrable love

That, if we woke up in a different planet I’d still choose you

The, if you wind up dead then that would also be my cue

-Kind of love  

I want a messy love

A passionate love

A spontaneous love

The, sometimes I hate you so much I want to kill you right now bro

But I’d still take a bullet for you if it were ever in tow

The, its raining cats and dogs yet you hold the umbrella over my head and not yours during our street row

Not because you enjoy the raindrops as they flow

But your main priority is still to shelter my ‘fro

And because you know if you left then that would be a bigger blow

So instead you stick around and we argue some more

Kinda love

I don’t want no tiptoe love

I want a real love

An enigmatic love

A never-ending love