Push
Push
We learned to push love away through imitation
We saw early our fathers and brothers
Second us to their cars and gods
Our tenacious rhythm of articulating
Our womanist sensibilities
Through Double Dutch chants and house play
With candy cigarettes
But why did we have to choose a struggle
Be Black or be woman
Like color and pussy don't connect
Be gay or be Christian
Like love and religion ain't the same
Fuck nasty or be wife
Like legs wrapped so squeezed around my man's waist
Say I ain't his queen
Hair nappy or bone straight
Like how steady my comb stick
Say whether I can fight a dog off my back
What do you know about where our lives intersect
Like we can't have faith and be afraid
Like we can't forgive and remember how dirty you
played
Like we can't be devil afraid of our reflections
And look into our eyes at the same time
And know how magnificent we are
We learned to push love away through imitation
We saw early our fathers and brothers
Second us to their cars and gods
Our tenacious rhythm of articulating
Our womanist sensibilities
Through Double Dutch chants and house play
With candy cigarettes
But why did we have to choose a struggle
Be Black or be woman
Like color and pussy don't connect
Be gay or be Christian
Like love and religion ain't the same
Fuck nasty or be wife
Like legs wrapped so squeezed around my man's waist
Say I ain't his queen
Hair nappy or bone straight
Like how steady my comb stick
Say whether I can fight a dog off my back
What do you know about where our lives intersect
Like we can't have faith and be afraid
Like we can't forgive and remember how dirty you
played
Like we can't be devil afraid of our reflections
And look into our eyes at the same time
And know how magnificent we are
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Writer(s): Robin Reed
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