Crazy Love

Love isn’t love if it’s not shared

It’s sort of like a magic penny:

You put it in your pocket and you aint got any

Isn’t that weird?

So, I want to share my love with you

Not the type of love that inexperienced wanna-be love

Gods sing about

But the mad crazy love

Not the kind that grace or TV screens

Or the kind in romance novels

I said, it’s crazy love

The love that makes you high sort of walking on cloud 9

The love that bubbles in your heart like a volcano ready to

Erupt

I want to love you crazy

Like teenagers love cell phones

Like … like Cupid loves his bow

Like God loves the church

Like animals love spring

Like a groom loves his virgin bride

I want to love you more

More than Carl Marx Loves communism

More than Rastafarians love High Grade

More than Americans love their constitution

MAD SICK HEAD NU GOOD kind of love

The love that makes you smile for just remembering

The love that makes you nervous if you are forgetting

Sounds crazy eh?

That’s because it’s crazy love

The kind of love that when you hear a song…

It makes you bite your lips and curl your toes

YEA… CRAZY, CRAZY LOVE

I want to love you more…

More than ghetto people love gossip

More than politicians love scam

More than I love to nyam

More than Michael Angelo loves painting and waiters love Waiting

More than Shakespeare loves staging

More than pastor’s love preaching and teachers love Teaching

CRAZY, GRAZY LOVE

Yes, I want to love you more…

More than Mozart loves the piano

And Bach loves the concheirto

More than Patti La Belle loves to sing

And Laborites love to ring

I want to love you BAD

Like Vybz Kartel loves slackness

Or Maya Angelo loves blackness

Yea……………

Like a dentist loves cavity

And Jamaicans love poverty

Like Louise Bennett loves Patois

And beauty queens love the camera

I want t love you STINK

Like the smell of pungent cow dung on a cool early

Morning

Like scratching you malodorous toes after a hard day at

Work

That’s crazy, CRAZY LOVE

I want to love you SWEET

Sort of like whip-creamed strawberry and a sip of dry white Wine

Like lighting scented candles and makes you a peach

Scented bubble bath

While listening to the beat and the rhythm of your heart

I want to love you PURE

Like the wind from a virgin forest

Like… like a child’s first day at school

I want to love you WHOLE

Not some of you but all of you… with all your faults

So, love is tender

Love is true

Love is crazy

Just like me and you.

William Ebanks

(Class of 2012)