The sweetness of chocolate flows in
The body inflames
The stress of the day seeps in
The body inflames
Cancer cells begin, we don’t know why
The body inflames, more cells are born
The dryness cracks, a spark lights
The forest into flames
The wind picks up the fire, spreading it
More forests in flames
Miles and miles of dry needles and leaves
The forest morphs into a wild fire
Justice unequal, different types of fairness
The body, mind and heart are enraged
Government tells women what they can do with their bodies
The body, mind and heart enrages
Racism galore, white supremacy reigns
Body, mind and heart rage on and on
Hurricanes and floods often torment the poor
Enraged by buildings developed on soft marshland
Tornadoes and floods fly through the same routes
Where the land is contoured just so
Separating family and friends by just
A house or two, uneven, unfair and random
Inflamed or enraged by whatever antecedents
Our skin erupts, inflamed, full of pain and itch
Burning holes through our hearts
Blowing out like a fire wild with hunger
For the next crispy corpse
The next shooting of a black or brown man
Enraged and inflamed
The Body Knows
Splitting the skin
Lesions growing internally
The fire of arthritis and organs
Burning up, eating themselves
Manna from heaven
Warmth from below
Helplessness and failure to change
Requires we die slow deaths
Full of pain, anger and sorrow
Unable to direct the flow of such power
Better to rise up, facing the rage
Feeling the flames, burning up or flooded with the
Fire of Life, the Freedom to change the world
Beating our breasts, raising our voices while
We are made whole again
Even if inflamed and enraged
