Like Her Body The World

LIKE HER BODY THE WORLD

hit and hit and hit and hit and fallen

getting up and trying to get up

now one part is hitting another part wounding its flesh

slicing its own veins breaking its bones

but wait we are coming help is on the way

now we are hitting the part that is hitting the part

now someone else is helping the part we hit

now it is arm against arm hand against hand

now it is eye against eye no one can see

now it is ear against ear there is no mouth

where is the up to get up to where is the body

where are the parts have the parts all fallen apart

we are part of the body we forgot

we thought we lived outside like a brain in a jar

we thought we were pure like thought with nothing to lose

but we are losing too we are losing parts

besides we were never that brain we were only a part

we thought we would never fall but we are falling

falling and falling and falling hitting the air

falling hitting our self our own body

meanwhile the body the world will try to get up

or else the body the world will lie down will lie down

 

Martha Collins