The problem unstated till now, is
how to live in a damaged body in a world
where pain is meant to be gagged, uncured,
ungrieved over.
The problem is to connect without hysteria,
the pain of anyone's body, with the pain of the body's world.
For it is the body's world they are trying to destroy forever.
The best world is the body's world.
Filled with creatures, filled with dread.
Misshapen so, yet the best we have.
Our raft among the abstract worlds.
And how I long to live on this Earth walking her boundaries,
never counting the cost.