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My body is not a war-zone
Yes this is a temple but I do not house soldiers
Our meal times are not made of condensed soup cans
Our meal time are created from our prayerful song joining
As one
Ebbing and flowing
My body is not a war-zone.
My body is the ocean.
It comes in waves, pulled by the moon
Luna combs through my hair with her fingertips.
It will grow
She whispers as I dream
My body is not a war-zone
Even though I have fought from inside of it
This body is a holy land
Men travel far to reach these temple gates
To find shelter
To find religion
To find God
My body is not a war-zone.
My body is an experience
My body is not an amusement park
My body is the thrill of finding fear behind the questionable safety of the wiggly bar they will place in front of your lap as you ride my curves
Looping.
My body is the endless curve of a mandala being drawn by crone woman hands
My body is art.
My body is the result of a chemical reaction my parents referred to as love
My body is not a war-zone
These scars are not from any battles I fought
These scars are from the times I called God by a man’s name
When I should have used my own
My body is God expressing herself in the human form
My body is the color of rain, the color of freshly whetted mud.
My body is the echo of bird song bouncing through forested holy lands
My body
My body
My body
This flesh is a temple in which I celebrate
My mealtimes are condensed into the 24 hours a day in which I prayerfully sing
I am the men wandering the vastness of dry holy lands to find
God
I am the bird song echoing in the paradise of unfurling leaves and strong wood
I am the ocean
Ebbing and flowing
I am Luna, I am hope, I comb through your hair and whisper to you as you dream
I am the stars that lull you to sleep and ignite your wakefulness
I am the universe.
The universe
This is my body and it is the universe expressing itself in the human form.
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