The Straight Truth

by Stephen Jarrell Williams

I don't drink.
I don't smoke.
I don't do drugs.
I don't chase women.

I've just loved
my wife
all these years,
but she has changed,
and to her I haven't
changed enough.

She wants
a man of God
as she believes
a man of God should be.

I'm not God.
I'm not Jesus.
I'm not a preacher.

I'm just a man
trying to tip the scales
in the right direction.