The REAL You

The Real You

By Keith Kareem Williams

I don’t want to meet you after you’ve spent three hours putting on make-up. I don’t want to try to talk over the music in the VIP section of the club at the tail end of a night where I’ve had way too many drinks. I don’t care about the glamour or the glitz and I don’t want to kiss lipstick-covered lips. I’m not impressed by the expensive clutch or the designer shoes because I’m only interested in you…the REAL you.

I’ve spent a few dollars in my time on what most men would consider dimes but I’ll never love a woman who can be bought and paid for with cash. Anybody can spend money and that’s why I don’t respect, admire or desire affection with a price tag attached. Any heart or body can be bought is cheap and I’m only after things in life that are priceless.

That is why I want you…the REAL you. I’ll take you every day, early in the morning with your hair a mess, no makeup on and wearing nothing but my favorite T-shirt. You are everything they’re not, and that’s why I want you…the REAL you…the true version of yourself that you only want to give to me. Time may have passed but nothing has changed but the date on the calendar. When you love someone for real…that never goes away.