Agonized Soul Poem by Karen Jane

I love my man
I'm a lie if I say I don't
I love my man
I'm a lie if I say I don't
But I'll quit my man
I'm a lie if I say I won't

My man wouldn't give me no breakfast
Wouldn't give me no dinner
Squawked about my supper
Then he put me out of doors
Had the nerve to lay
A matchbox to my clothes
I didn't have so many
But I had a long, long way to go
There ain't nothing I ever do
Or nothing I ever say
That folks don't criticize me
But I'm going to do
Just what I want to anyway
And don't care just what people say
If I should take a notion
To jump into the ocean
Ain't nobody's business if I do…..
But, my God is a mighty God
Lord, deliver
He Who set old Israel free
Swallowed that Egyptian army
Lord, deliver
With the waves of the great Red Sea.