We love you even though sometimes <br />you don’t deserve it. <br />We are your friends, your sisters, your girlfriends, <br />your wives. <br />You lack what we as black women need <br />the most, respect. <br />We are struggling ourselves everyday <br />as we try to overcome the abuse <br />we have suffered, the love we have lost <br />and the “thank you’s” we have seldom heard. <br />You, black male should be our shelters <br /> from the storms of discrimination, our <br />shields in the battle of abuse and not the <br />water in the wells in which we feel <br />we are drowning.<br /><br />Lorna Gero<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-that-black-man/
