What Do I say

What Do I Say

It’s inevitable that one day I will leave this Earth.

I started out a seed of sin from conception and been sinning since birth.

What do you say when you are standing in front of perfection?

It’s not a man on the other side of the wall listening to you at confession.

She knew what you were thinking when you stole the bike from up the street.

Painted it gray put it behind the house then started riding it the next week.

The ten commandments are not a checklist of all your bad accomplishments.

Got so much dirt and blood upon my hands I need holy water to wash them in.

What do I say about the man’s wife that I was sleeping with?

This is not a court of law I can’t plead the 5^th.

Thou shalt not kill, yet I sent you an angel.

Will he be standing by your side with a heart filled with anger?

When I look back at it I was a man with many wives, a man that took a life.

A man that told many lies, and when it rains on sunny days those are the tears from God’s eyes.

I mean…Is she disappointed in me?

I was born in the hood raised in the hood and lived a life of poverty.

But what do I say? She knows everything that I have done.

It’s time to man up and face the music cause I have nowhere left to run.

No one else to blame no other games to play.

When I am standing there on judgement day tell me…What do I say?

Terrence Degree

© September 21, 2005