So one day this dude steps to me

And upon rejection

He

says, "You don’t give

Romance

A fair chance"

But the fact is

I’m quite the romantic

It's just the One whose charted my heart’s path

Is really kind of matchless

From His Genesis to Revelations

I mean even the woes of His Lamentations

Move me

So for someone else to woo me

You gotta come correctly

See

I want someone to court me

Spit truths like Paul in Phillipians 1:3

Stand flat footed locked eyes and say he thanks God upon every remembrance of me

Now that’s deep

Peep

I want someone to go beyond the external

Beyond the superficial and physical to something eternal

That extension of what I give to God and what He gives to me

The he that makes me wanna draw nearer to the Trinity

That’s the type of brother you gotta be

Cuz see

I’m not looking for a part time lover

That’s not the way I get down

I want somebody that’s gonna be around

20 years from now

Someone who sees the future with my first name joined to his last

Sees that old American dream and me as a part of his math

I’m talking

2 car garage, 2.5 children all totaling oneness

With the one that's looking for a lifetime of the ups and downs of marital bliss

Not the someone to jump ship when he no longer feels like he’s feeling this

And it’s not that I’m conceited

I’ve just conceded

That I’m created with purpose

So I can’t lose focus

By wasting time and space

Given all of me just to take

Up seconds, minutes, hours, days, in others words to aimlessly date

When in reality if we ain’t looking at whether God has set us aside to be each others lifetime mate

What would we actually be doing

You claim you ain’t just casually step to me

Ain’t here cuz you tryna get w/ me

So please explain to me

What exactly are you pursuing

Don’t get me wrong, I ain’t rushing down the aisle

Trekking any dude between pews

Picking out dresses or mentally writing the vows before our I dos

Because quite honestly

I’ve already discovered my worth so it’s now up to someone to find me

I’m just telling you plainly

That I’m a Proverbs 31:10 young lady

So if that ain’t what you checking for when you checking me then check this I’m aight

This elect lady

Whose price is far above rubies remains content to be called solely

The waiting and preparing bride of Christ

I’m not sitting around idly

Waiting for someone to come by and wife me

I’m on my grind for the King

And I can’t entertain anything

That ain’t about the same

Not just in name,

but we gotta be able to walk together AGREED

Two people, One faith, One doctrine, One God, One plan, One mind, one goal, one road one need

So I hope you can see

It’s not that I don’t give romance a fair chance

Because the fact is

I’m quite the romantic

And I’m in a love affair with a love that’s rare

And I’m holding out for a love like His

(c) 2012 TL Murphy