This Body II

By Renée Watson

My body is

perfect and

imperfect and

black and

girl and

big and

thick hair and

short legs and

scraped knee and

healed scar and

heart beating and

hands that hold and

voice that bellows and

feet that dance and

arms that embrace and

my momma’s eyes and

my daddy’s smile and

my grandma’s hope and

my body is masterpiece and

my body is mine.

Notes:

From Watch Us Rise, published by Bloomsbury Children's Books. Text © 2019 by Renée Watson.

Source: Poetry (March 2021)