Your Body

Is you and is not you and is not yours,
Is not one, no separate entity,

Is extensive and proprioceptive,
An ecosystem of many little

Lives you never feel and never notice
Except when their body is in crisis,

And it is theirs, not yours or your culture’s,
Those other bodies with designs on it.

Give it a rest, if you can. A body
Needs a rest, needs you to leave it alone,

Let it be what it does with all its lives,
Its seething, while you’re sleeping, while you’re gone.