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

Blessed & Curvy