It’s ok I said, I've been there too

I understand where you’re
coming from

Just show me the dotted
line and

I’ll be ready to sign

I promise I’ll make no
demands

For alimony or child
support

My life’s worth more than
you could ever pay

The gun trained on my face

I heard the click

And saw him pull the
trigger back

Imagine the surprise on his
face when we

Still stood eye to
eye 

the bullet jammed in the
chamber

My life handed to me on a
silver 

platter that day I
understand now

But for the mercy of
God 

I’d be dead not only broke

Lucky not to succumb to a
bullet that day

I said, “Show me that
dotted line 

I know when it’s time to
sign and give in

Because I’ll never get
nothing from you 

except a hard way to go

You never liked sharing
anyway 

so I’m glad to let you know

I’m glad to see you go

I want you to know 

I’m glad you know 

I don’t need you to have my
own

I had my own before you
were born

no - please don’t
interrupt," I said

holding up my open palm,

"You misunderstand.

I said it's ok. Go with
your government job 

and all your big benefits.

It’s ok if you refuse to
share.

I swear I don’t care. 

I’ll sign it all away to
you

as long as you let me go my
own way.

I'll sign that dotted
line, 

I swear I will!

I’m not giving in to death
yet – 

it’s premature to date.

Please don’t make me 

leave my son motherless

Hand me a pen 

I’m willing ready and able
to bend

I’ll sign on that dotted
line

I absolve you from all your
future debts to me

Please let me go by the
grace of God

Thank God I’m not
dead 

Here I go, I got a pen in
my hand 

I’m ready to sign on that
dotted line.”

The surprise registered in
your lifted brows

as you pulled the trigger

and stared me dead in the
eye

no remorse for what you
planned to do

An eye for an eye you
quoted 

so bang you’re dead gone in
the wink 

of an eye and you winked at
me 

we thought it was for one
last time

certainly for me I thought
this is the last wink I’ll ever see

Pulled the trigger in the
blink of an eye

A gleeful smile on your “no
mercy for the bitch face”

A New York City minute
changes life

when you saw no bullet had
emerged from the chamber

no bullet came clambering
through 

no bullet went through me
and 

by the mercy of God I still
stand here before thee

So let me be me and I’ll
allow you to be free of me

Free from all my demands
you could no longer stand 

that made you be so cruel
to me

Now I’m ready to sign on
the dotted line as long as you’ll let me be

Yes I’m ready to sing
there’s a song in my heart

Glory Hallelujah I'm so
glad I survived

I'm so blessed to be alive

money ain’t mean nothing to
me I’ll give it all up to stay alive

I got a song in my heart so
glad to be alive