Troubled Waters

by Zee Reneé

If he has to be physical with you to get his point across, that’s a grown man who lacks communication skills.

“I’m not an expert but I know that love should be healthy.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

“Thomassss?” He looked around and over his shoulder then back to me with his hands out. “Thomas is gone!”

LMAOOOOO

“I had somebody come fix it for me yesterday. I just felt like harassing yall today for the inconvenience.

The closest I could compare his walk to was Idris Elba. Shit.

Yall gotta let this man go just like Kofi!!!

He was leaned all over in the tank, beating they ass…with a straw.

“Yall got me fucked up! That’s your fucking brother! We don’t fight each other! Apologize!”

WOW!!

Best Toe Reconstructive Surgeon in New Orleans.

“Can yall niggas hear me?” When I saw wide eyes and people turning in our direction, I knew they could, so I cleared my throat. “Attention everybody! Get the fuck out! We is now closed!”

“Shut the fuck up! I only said one cuss word. This the real world. He gone hear some cussing!” I waited good and well until the lady removed her hands from her son’s ears before speaking again. “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Gotdamn. Shit!” I covered my mouth, laughing before looking beside me at Innocent who was crying laughing. “Now everybody get out!”

“So I never leave the houuuse, withooout make..up ooon! I keep my mascara in my pocket, if I’m running to the market, ‘cause you never knoow..who’s..watching youuu! So I gotta stay on!” I sang at the top of my lungs before turning it up because my favorite part was coming. “What she say? But we can’t now, nooo. So bitch don’t kill my vibe! Don’t be mad ‘cause you in coach class and I’m in that G5! Talk yo shit Jazmine!”

Come on Jazzzzyyyyyyy!!!!

The first step to opening to him is first accepting what happened to me and I prayed it didn’t make him look at me differently.

I pray it doesnt take us 555 pages to find out what happened to her.

“So? ‘Cause he a baby he cute? He looks like he was on the front lines in the Civil War. That lil’ nigga ugly, just like his daddy. He can’t deny that one. Look like a chicken that just hatched. Hideous. Don’t show nobody else that picture Harlee.”

You know how bitches post they baby foot or they hand? She should’ve just done that ‘cause he look like he forty-two by the face.”

“Innocent’s mood changed when she saw them, and I can’t get that image of the fear in her eyes out of my head. She won’t elaborate just yet, but I trust my gut. And I’an tryna be captain save a hoe but damn she makes me wanna dress like a sailor from head to fucking toe.”

Family. A healthy, beautiful black family. It saddened me a little that I went so many years without this. God never created us to be alone. We were meant to be in community, holding and supporting one another.

People believe molestation can happen only from a man, but women are capable of rape too. While a man allowed it to happen, it was a woman who robbed me of my innocence.”

Not only did he allow this to happen to his niece but his daughter too

“This bitch slower than a Crockpot!” I commented. Mama Ivory pinched my side. Innocent made the shit worse than it should’ve been by laughing so hard that she snorted, then everybody else started.

And oh I forgot, please let our baby we pretty God, please. I know I talk about everybody else kids but please man. Let me make it. I pray all this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Emotions are not reserved only for women. It is okay to be an expressive black man without feeling weak.”

“Within you, my soul found its missing piece,

Thank you for showing me that there is beauty on the other side of Troubled Waters.”