you are what we say you are

I like how sleeping next to someone means more than sex sometimes, the body’s way of saying ‘I trust you to be by my side at my most vulnerable time,’ you have no defenses when you are asleep, you tell no lies.

When the preacher starts the sermon on adultery and you been creepin with somebody husband

When the preacher starts a sermon on adultery but you been sleeping with him behind his wife’s back

and the wife looking back at you mad that she can’t beat yo ass in church like

that one lady who knows ALL the tea looking like

And Sister Shirley who can’t stand both yall asses looking like

And Sister Mary finding her way out cuz she cant stand all this drama in the church with yall sinning asses

Sister Loretta dont care bout yall cause she too busy being hit by the Holy Ghost

And you just in the back over all the bullshit because the pastor done said “One more thing and Imma let y'all go” three times already

Just as yall ready to leave the choir starts goin awf again and you like

Your complain a little too loud up under your breath and your mama hears you and looks at you like

And your grandma looking like

me on my way to hell