Inspired by Lucille Clifton’s poem “sisters”

you and I are brothers.

we cry the same.

you and I

see eye to eye

coming from the same place.

you and I

like rhyming our tears

and drying up our fears.

you and I

try standing up to pain

and puddle around in rain

you and I

was comparing our scars one time

and we both smiled because the shades of skin

are different between

you and I.

you and I

walk proud

we stand loud

we bleed strong

we think long.

You and I

live to write

we inspire to fight

sometimes don’t act right

but we breathe the same

we heal the same

we are brothers,

only where you find truth

I seek proof

© 2010

Tarringo T. Vaughan