Bougie Chic

“some lovers try to drag the night out of us. they go in armed with the sun, they go in ready to shoo that sadness out of our skin. you, my lover were light just as you were, you were light without even trying to be. you didn’t scare my sadness away, you listened to it. you sat there and listened. and I am thankful because it seems I was carrying a world of hurt in my body and before you no one had ever paid it any mind. before you, no one was ever light enough or calm enough or ready enough to ask my sadness why it insisted on calling me home.”

I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.