Letters From Both Sides

Dear little black girl 

this is your white friend 

we’re like Bestfriend’s forever 

or until forever ends 

They hate to see us together 

they hate the bond we share

do you notice when we’re out

how everybody stares ?

they say I’m getting out of control 

since I started “hanging with the black girl and wearing less clothes”

but I guess that’s just how it goes 

Segregation has been over for years & it feels like nobody knows....

Dear little white girl 

this is your black sista 

you know I got you through whatever 

Bonnie & Bonnie without the pistols 

see I can’t physically hold one in my hand 

cause they’ll see it as a threat

in the eyes of the “white man”

you may think that I’m a fool but girl you know how I am 

they think I’m cool with you for your money, that’s why I call you “fam”

like come on now, you know we better than that

been knowing you since like ‘98 

and I wasn’t even born yet