He told me,
Right there in the kitchen while we were making Jamaican banana pancakes
“You will write a book one day my man!”
She said to me,
“Perhaps one day you will write our family’s story.”
A remark that has stuck with me for years.
He wrote me an email titled,
“Keep Writing.”
She said to me time and time again,
“You need to get those published!”
I hear them still,
Whispering to me.