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Black Love.


I want to love, cherish, and respect a black man.

This world has downgraded and given black men the definition of someone less than... enough.

I just want to love on ONE black man for the rest of my life,

To show him that he is enough.

 

To show him that I understand his flaws, to show him that I can heal his pain.

I want my love to be so overwhelming that he has to give some away. 

I don't want him to be angry, I don't want his life value to decrease

I want him to love himself the way I should love me.

I want his self-love to increase even more because of the way that I love.

Him.

 

And all I ask for in return is that he does the same for me.

Black love is infectious. 

He's our Kings and our Protectors. 

Black love is brilliant, and don't you argue with me boy because you will not win it. 

Black love is the kind of love your soul longs for, it. 

You dream of this love, you've prayed for this love.

 

And God sent me to answer it. 

 

 

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Shiaya

Just opening up some old wounds, using some old writing/new, to heal.

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