wanting you …

i came

straight to the point

in my chat

with B

either he would

work to correct

this truth

or

or I would die

with my love

still in me

and

and would refuse

entry into that gate

and call it hell

because

because I would challenge

heaven’s right

to call herself peace

but

but I would not forget

how you made me

want to abandon Him

made me feel so damn good.

Contemporary African American Poetry