True Love

This piece was performed in the Brave New Voices 2015 International Poetry Slam as well as in the Cascadoo Festival in Trinidad and Tobago.

You’re like a celebrity
Everyone knows you
Just like money
Everyone wants you
And even though we don’t need you
You run through our veins
You’re always there.
A family member bid their last farewell?
You’re there to fill that emptiness in our gut.
Blamed for something we didn’t do?
You’re there to scoop up our tender hearts
and make them beat that much faster.
Never mind, we really do need you
Because all of these things
They bring us down
But you’re here for us.
We can spoon you right out of the jar and eat the pain away
We love you, Nutella.
Your sweet, creamy, chocolate-nutty, stress-reducing, Nutella
?Mm, yea-ah, you know what it is, my Nutella, my Nutella, my Nu- My Nutella? 
I make song after song, parody after parody just for you.
Because within this scary forest with no light
You’re that sweet, creamy, chocolate-nutty rock
And everytime I take a bite I know I’m addicted
?I-i-i-i-i-it tastes really good, I’m obsessed why can’t I?
?Stop, why not, why not, why-y?
?Everytime I try, I take another bite?
?20,983 is how many spoons of ‘Tella I will eat? 
   ?Every time I open another jar I know I’m getting f-a-t-t-e-r…
Nutella
Now that I think about it
Because you’re so addicting
so fattening
so sugary,
Even though you save us from all these bad things in the world…
you’re bad for us too.
​So…. who’s going to save us from you?

-​Hawa Rahman