Body Not Language

How easily you make us
Speak against ourselves, make words
Speak as if we weren’t language,

As if we were naked self,
As if we were you yourself.
I am not these words, you make

Us proclaim, your cri de coeur,
Names in your name. We say it.
You can’t say it without us.

I this, I that, you say. I
Am this person, this body.
I speak for me, not language.