🧜🏿♀️
“When they tell the Black girl
She can’t play play mermaid
ask them,
what their people know
about holding their breath
underwater.
About giving their bodies
to the current,
about all the things
that float. +
@PoetJasmineMans
“When they tell the Black girl
She can’t play play mermaid
ask them,
what their people know
about holding their breath
underwater.
About giving their bodies
to the current,
about all the things
that float. +
@PoetJasmineMans
Ask them about the girls
who lost their mothers,
and mother’s tongues
under the sea.
And the danger
awaiting the stillness,
how there’s always
something living,
and how there’s always
something dying.
There are mothers here. +
@PoetJasmineMans
who lost their mothers,
and mother’s tongues
under the sea.
And the danger
awaiting the stillness,
how there’s always
something living,
and how there’s always
something dying.
There are mothers here. +
@PoetJasmineMans
Mothers who know grief
but have seen it too often
to give it such a name.”
_
The Little Mermaid
by @poetjasminemans
Black Girl, Call Home
pg. 117-118
#thelittlemermaid
but have seen it too often
to give it such a name.”
_
The Little Mermaid
by @poetjasminemans
Black Girl, Call Home
pg. 117-118
#thelittlemermaid
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