Black Love Project

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Love Poems: Milk and Honey

8.6.2014do not slip your tongue into the mouths of menwho see your beauty when lights are dimthey do not know youdo not lay underneath men who thrust themselves inside of youbut do not ask for your mother's namethey will not love youdo not hide yourself from men whoask you to staythose who allow you to rest your weary souldid you not prayfor that milk and honey kind of love?