Interview with a Body

what does it feel like to live in my body?

it feels raw and skeletal

a breaking of the bones

into meatless particles

what do I carry in my heart?

cigarette butts, irony, wrong interpretations of words

that haven’t been said yet

what does the world look like through my eyes?

a poem that needs to be redone

with a pen knife of love

how does it feel to look in the mirror?

I draw my initials in shower steam

and hope for someone to save me

what does it feel to take up space as me?

I press ‘delete’ over and over

a button that works on the keyboard

but not when you love someone

do I have back pain?

certainly, I’m thirty, don’t I look like it

through the screen?

what is it like to take a step in my shoes?

it’s watching eye movement

needing to be loved

a torture device

for the abused