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Body
A short poem
My body
My vessel for love
How I was taught to protect
and guard you
As though there was nothing
more sacred than you
My body
My temple for greatness
How I cared and worried
over you
And learned to love you,
gradually
How I treated you kindly
and confided in you,
to keep the darkest secrets
that remain hidden within
the colors of flesh
Oh, how I could not see
that one day, you would
betray me
And expose the pink
and reddish hues of my secrets
How you would turn me cold
when I needed warmth the most
How you would turn every
bad thought or ill feeling
into heartache and stiff joints
And leave me breathless and still
Shriveling,
as if from old age
Though all the grief and pain
Betrayal and lost
you have bestowed upon me
could not allow me to learn
how to unlove you
Perhaps, there is still hope
For me, to learn how
to forgive you
