Heart Of A Goon

by Jahquel J.

Eventually the Big Dawg wants to be led…

I didn’t just watch Zoya, I studied her. I learned who she was and what she required, even though she had never told me out her mouth. If you watched someone long enough, you learned the things they never told people.

Men deserved grace to fuck up, figure it out and then become whole for their women. A lot of women wanted perfect men out the gate and weren’t perfect themselves. Packed with a lot of trauma and wrong doings but wanted the perfect man.

Depression was like fighting the darkness with a blind fold.

Just because you were understanding of someone’s brokenness, didn’t mean you had to crumble right along with them.

“She’s special… real special. Sometimes when she looks in that mirror, I think she loses sight of that… remind her.”

Black women were already not protected.

The art of loving a woman was to know who they were. To understand when they were at peace.