Ethic 5

by Ashley Antoinette

“Where the fuck they make you at?” Aria asked. “Nigga, I’ll lay all this on your altar.”

“You can’t leave your pieces all over the floor, Mo. You pick your shit up. You put your shit back together and you live to love another day. We don’t always get the explanations or apologies we deserve. People don’t always love you right. The only thing you can control is how you love yourself. Love you, Morgan. Love yourself hard. Over-love you and don’t apologize for it. That way, when someone is under-loving you, when they’re not serving you, when they’re not giving you the same amount of love you give yourself, you’ll recognize it and stop accepting less than what you’re worth. Cuz you’re worth a lot.”

“She never sends me out the house without the taste of something good on my tongue,” he stated.