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.