Or do you dance, even when you don’t know the song?

Sometimes you forget that to be you is to be unseen and unheard, or it is to be seen and heard in ways you did not ask for. Sometimes you forget to be you is to be a Black body, and not much else.

You said to trust is not to fill time, but you would like to say to trust is to fill that time with each other.

Or do you dance, even when you don’t know the song?

Which is to say there was more life in your hands than you expected.

How strange a life you and other Black people lead, forever seen and unseen, forever heard and silenced.

She escapes the frame, until it is just you on the platform, a little breathless, a little ecstatic, a little sad.

If prayer is mostly desire from the inner self, then you’re praying for a safe trip for her.

To be you is to apologize and often that apology comes in the form of suppression.