Love is butterflies, it flutters high then all the sudden dies/
We all know the cycle, still it comes as some surprise/
Love is telling one another lies/
Which soon enough become realised, ending up with fights/
Love is bloody thighs cut with knives and sunken eyes/
Devoid of any glimmer of hope, love is something many just despise/
Love is trying to summarise over a hundred lines/
Into this hurt I feel Women, I wouldn’t write this otherwise/
Love is neediness/
Love is pleading with a lover to stay when there’s someone else they favour being with/
Love is a means to live/
If you’re unloved, you’ll be weeded out the gene pool, love is why we exist/
Love is a drug and we all fiend for this/
It comes with a buzz, a sense of peace and bliss/
But with the ups are the downs, when he or she is missed/
Them withdrawals of serotonin and dopamine that hits/
Love will make the unfaithful plead the 5th/
Like the last indecent bitch who tore my heart out and went about her day with complete indifference/
Like what we had was nothing, I find it hard believing this/
With all we went through together, don’t tell me that was meaningless/
Love is dry-heaving in grief, steeped in a deep abyss/
While ya favourite girl is riding steevies dick, an easy fix/
Love is wishing I could just eat, let alone sleep with chicks/
I don’t know how you do it, for some love is cheap as chips/
Love is power struggles and ego trips/
Love is a game, many cheat and use deceitful tricks/
Love is a one way street, a fleeting gift people give/
We’re lucky if we get it in return, so heed the risk/
Love is subjective/
Love is different from another’s perspective/
That’s why it’s difficult to find the right one to connect with/
Love for women is more something selective/
From an abundant collective of hunter protectors and hungry investors/
Love for men is a pursuit, it’s struggles and efforts/
To find a lover with ethics who doesn’t neglect us/
Love is not what these hollywood blockbusters presents us/
Nor what you’ve been conditioned to think, so come to your senses/
Love is snubbing your exes, love is fucking up friendships
Love is days to months going malnourished and restless/
Love is feeling so uncomfortably jealous/
You start becoming aggressive, ending up in front of a judge to be sentenced/
Love is doing time, love is suicides, love is ruined lives/
Love is losing sight of self when unified as groom and bride/
Love is a suit and tie to provide for an abusive wife/
Who decides through the size of your paycheque if you prove the prize/
Love is staying with that insecure guy who bruised your eye and threatens to brutalise you more if there’s any future strife/
Love is destructive unless we use it right/
And love ourselves first, the beauty lies within you and I/
Niña Dioz’s “REYNA” is a loose, jubilant record with funk grooves and Latin dance beats, with appearances from Lido Pimienta & Shigeto. Bandcamp New & Notable May 17, 2018
