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# Raising Black Boys in a House of Love
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/raising-black-boys-in-a-house-of-love/
- Published: 2021-05-19T20:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:50:10.000Z
- Description: in this house black boys blossom black boys bloom
- Author: JP Howard
- Tags: Poetry, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-small, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

in this house  
  
we raise our voices  
we are raising up black boys in this house  
in this house, some days our voices stay raised high  
other nights we are soft whispers  
black boys are becoming black men in this house  
in this house black boys blossom  
black boys bloom  
black boys cry or laugh  
black boys be brilliant in this house  
this is a black boys house filled with love  
we don’t let fear into this house  
we know fear intimately,  
but we don’t let it enter these doors  
this is a safe house for black boys becoming black men  
this is a safe house for black men who were once black boys  
this is our house and these are our suns.