HOW DO I LOVE MY BLACK MAN?
 

From the top of your head to the bottom of your feet, I will love every inch of your manhood. For you are the true meaning of manhood.  For over 400 years you have carried the weight of the struggle upon your bronze shoulder but yet you never bent beneath the pressure. For you are the true essence of strength.

 You have watched your women being beaten and raped and your children taken and sold from you, but yet you continued to love and show love.  With you, we Black Women find comfort in your strength and wipe the tears of your struggle.

 

  So How Do I Love My Black Man?
 
   I will love you from the depths of my eternal soul and shower you with the love and respect you so richly deserve, for you are my strength when I am weak and I am your anchor in the midst of the storm.

 Come rest you weary head upon my bosom and I will give you rest. I will wipe the tears from your eyes for only I hear your silent cries in the middle of the night. Not cries of sorrow but the cries of the tribulations that you must endure and the struggle is not easy.

 Take my hand and I will ease the tears. Allow my love to engulf you and nuture the essence of your manhood. For you are my BLACK MAN and I will love you until the end of time.

 @ Davina Davis-Norris 13 July 1997
 

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Last Updated: 7/26/98