Just Between Us-Inspiring Stories by Women

Author:Tm Brown & Janice Ross & Adrienne Thompson & Tamika Christy & Nicole Dunlap & Selena Haskins [Brown, TM & Ross, Janice & Thompson, Adrienne & Christy, Tamika & Dunlap, Nicole & Haskins, Selena]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Anthologies, United States, Inspirational, Christian Living, Two Hours or More (65-100 Pages), African American, Religion & Spirituality, Short Stories, Christian Books & Bibles, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 0985909633
Amazon: B00FE69CGI
Publisher: Calidream Publishing
Published: 2013-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

Falling For “The One”

By Nicole Dunlap

“Young Mother”

They seize us at our most vulnerable

Long hair, short hair, light brown, white,

Black skin, yellow skin and a plethora of shades in between,

We make changes in order to change them,

We excuse their errors in judgment and on occasion their wandering eyes or that

Which wanders next to steel thighs,

We grow within the womb, carrying their child…

On occasion, we’re not alone as others are carrying their child,

Giving them all we have in order to mold them, change them, sculpt them into the Fathers we may or may not have had…

All to find out,

They love the lives they lead,

We, in our quest to keep love, have developed and learn loves lessons,

Some of us almost in the nick of time…

Our eyes have opened and we, as women, finally will take no more.