Butterfly 5

by Ashley Antoinette

God had a way of shrinking powerful men and reminding them they were merely human masquerading a faux authority that was never enough when it counted.

“It’s my favorite part of her. Of you,” Messiah said. “Its not a disability. Its just who y’all are and its rare and its beautiful as fuck.”

Their relationship wasn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but he was the only one who had to drink it. She was his preference.

You want her to be loyal to the pain you caused. I think you minimize the magnitude of the consequence of your actions. Your abandonment traumatizes her.”

“Before any of us can point fingers at how someone else mishandled a situation, we have to see how we contributed to things,” Khadeen said. “That’s accountability.”

All a woman really wants is the right to make her own choice. Its called respect.”

If she was a plant, she’d be dying because you aren’t feeding her enough light and water. I’d like to meet Morgan. I’d like to see the flower that’s distracting you from the plant.”

What is love? What is love worth? Love is not the thing you need to concern yourself with. Love gone come and love gone leave. That’s just what it does. That shit is so finicky, it’ll say I love you in the morning, and by the same night, you’ll find out it's somewhere else saying the same shit to someone else. Love is a trick, but baby you got to trick bigger.

Queens don’t chase, we sit, and we wait for the greatest man to prove his worth. That man will bring everything I just listed to you on a silver platter with no confusion involved.”

“Her don’t be giving us no real food. Just begtables and naked meat,” Messari protested. “I like the meat LaLa makes, with the crunchy stuff on it.”

Kids so sickening😂😂

“Sometimes the power is in the legacy, not the king,”