Sep 2015
{i remember}
She comes to presence
in a great wave of grief
that has no bottom.
{water cannot swim}
Feeling the unbearable
weight of womanhood
tearing me open,
revealing my own sorrows.
{a channel of life}*
To be a gate of love and blood,
the flesh of desire,
bearer of all burdens,
was so traumatic I was reborn
in the body of a man.
She comes to presence
in a great wave of grief
that has no bottom.
{water cannot swim}
Feeling the unbearable
weight of womanhood
tearing me open,
revealing my own sorrows.
{a channel of life}*
To be a gate of love and blood,
the flesh of desire,
bearer of all burdens,
was so traumatic I was reborn
in the body of a man.
