Black Love Always

When I decided to love you I asked the Creator one thing + that was to sustain our love. To give us back every year that our parents spent separated + divorced due to addiction. I asked for intentional presence that despite every hurdle we drew closer together. Proximity is everything with you! I asked for us to dwell in love + even when it seemed difficult that it would surface in the last place we put it. In the Creator’s hand of course. I asked for the ability to rise above unresolved trauma + issues that were outside of our control because I have realized it’s the small foxes that can spoil the vine. I asked for grace + tons of it because to be black + Queer desiring to do something monumental like succeed in love, I knew it would be complicated.

It wasn’t complicated because I wasn’t prepared but because the world didn’t realize that we knew how divorce comes for black homes. How it vehemently kicks down our doors only to start a grease fire that terrorizes every consideration. How it steals the joy off children’s faces + empties bedrooms so that everyone resides separately. But not on my watch.

See your girl sits at the foot of the Father daily + I knew that when I accepted the call to love a black woman that we were destined to rise above everything + shine the brightest. I decided that love, our love would sustain us + our kids for generations to come. -
I love you Josette not for any other reason than we work hard to be + stay in love. Thank you for allowing me to shoulder the woman you are becoming + allowing me to be the woman I always knew I could be.

Here’s to #BeingBlack + Queer in love! Salut!