Be More Than Bodies

To this body I never loved.

Why can’t you show what I am made of?

I am more than blood and tears

Show me why I lived through all these years.

I grew up strong and very frail,

I starved myself but ate so well.

I’m wide awake, dead on my feet.

I swear to god I’m not who I think...

I speak kindly but my words cut deep.

I love myself, but still wear sleeves.

And all your secrets I will keep

Even after you inevitably leave.

But never once have you kept mine

Even after all this time

...And so I ask the big man in the sky

“please oh please just let me die,

I’m already on borrowed time.”

So dear body, can’t you see.

You’re the only god I see.

You rule my life and cage me in.

You never show what’s within.

To this body I cannot leave.

Why can’t you show them why I

breathe?

I am more than she or he,

I'm more than the pain inside of me.

I am a darkness, in the brightest day.

I'm a light, more than whites and greys.

And all the colours hidden beneath

the scale of love, and life, and heat.

I am made of more than I knew.

So body please show others the view.

To the people reading, show yours too.

You are more than black and white, red

or blue.

You are a universe of colour and hue.