She Looks Like Me
She looks like me All the details aren’t out but she looks like me What if I decided I wanted to travel to another state? I decide to drive my car and don’t realize a headlight is out What if I am stopped but a cop who wants to make his quota? She looks like me What if I can’t believe that I am being stopped? The racial tension is thick as a knife I am being arrested for a traffic stop What do I do? What if I am handcuffed, taken in, and while I behind the walls of a prison I call my family pleading to get me out This is something no one was expecting and they are getting money together Something happened No one knows what They said I committed suicide Did I? Will the record show? My heart aches for Sandra Bland because as a African American woman She looks like me Contributed by Patricia A. Saunders Author of Let It Rain www.patriciaasaunders.com