We: For Breonna / I Can’t Forget
See,
Me and Bre
We be the same
We be girls
with bold three syllable names
that take up space, like Me
and Bre
We be brown girls
mocha malt ball round girls
thick with thigh and love
of music
and smiles and dancing
and dancing
and dancing.See,
Me and Bre
We be knowing each other
from way back before now,
before all this
We be reaching for the same light
and finding it, sometimes
battling the same war
and winning it, sometimes
carrying each other’s pain
and pain
and pain.
So please,
don’t tell me nothing
‘bout Me and Bre ‘cause
We be each other’s people
from ‘round the way,
back when our blood
was fresh and flowing
We be the same.
By Bernardine (Dine) Watson, Sept. 2020
