The nuclear family is not our legacy. It was forced on us after enslavement, after colonization, after they dismantled our villages and called it progress. Our love was communal. Our families were circles.
No woman mothered alone.
No man carried everything in silence.
No child was raised without a tribe.
They made us believe love needed licenses, that survival was success, that ownership was intimacy. But we remember — we come from land, from lineage, from fire, from shared hands and sacred roles.

I don’t want love that imitates empire.
I want relationships that restore our people.
I want family that feels like land and protection.
I want children raised by a nation, not a nuclear prison.
I want rest for our women, emotional freedom for our men, and reverence for our elders.
This is not about choosing poly or monogamy — this is about choosing sovereignty.
I’m not here to fit into systems that broke us.
I’m here to build what they tried to erase.
I am the return of the village.