Momma said,
so you gonna be a [ ] now?
As if she meant to say,
didn't I raise you better than that,
don't you know
I ain't raise no [ ],
don't you know
you too pretty to be a [ ]?
Why you gonna embarrass us like this,
you scared no man gonna love you,
you scared of men,
some mannnnnnn hurt you,
who hurt you?
Momma said,
so you gonna be a [ ] now?
As if she meant to say,
don't you know
how hard it already is
for women like us,
why you gonna go
and make it harder on yourself?
I don't want you in that kind of pain,
this world ain't sweet on those kinds of women,
I don't want another reason to be scared for you.
Momma said,
so you gonna be a [ ] now?
As if she meant to say,
I'm scared for you.
2021
Regular
Contemporary
2023
Childhood & Coming of Age
LGBTQ+ Experience
Womanhood
Dialogue
conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
Repetition
a recurrence of the same word or phrase two or more times