Jacqueline Woodson - Two gods. two worlds lyrics

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Jacqueline Woodson - Two gods. two worlds lyrics

It's barely morning and we're already awake, my grandmother in the kitchen ironing our Sunday clothes. I can hear Daddy coughing in his bed, a cough like he'll never catch his breath. The sound catches in my chest as I'm pulling my dress over my head. Hold my own breath until the coughing stops. Still, I hear him pad through the living room hear the squeak of the front screen door and know, he's made it to the porch swing , to smoke a cigarette. My grandfather doesn't believe in a God that won't let him smoke or have a cold beer on a Friday night a God that tells us all the world is ending so that Y'all walk through this world afraid as cats. Your God is not my God, he says. His cough moves through the air back into our room where the light is almost blue, the white winter sun painting it. I wish the coughing would stop. I wish he would put on Sunday clothes, take my hand, walk with us down the road. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that everyone who doesn't follow God's word will be destroyed in a great battle called Armageddon. And when the battle is done there will be a fresh new world a nicer more peaceful world. But I want the world where my daddy is and I don't know why anybody's God would make me have to choose.