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This is the Body I Love (a year of terror 2022)

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This is the body I love

And I can change it

 

You take food from it

Let it shiver in winter

Make it wait 9 hours in an ambulance

As it withers away

 

This is the body I love

But you have changed it

 

It waits in a

bomb shelter

and screams

don’t kill me

 

It gasps for breath

In a frozen sea

Please don’t

Drown me

 

This is the body I love

But you have changed it

 

This is the body I love

And I can save it

 

Vote you out of power

Take to streets

Pour bombs over Russia

Let the refugees arrive in luxury liners

Served by the rich on bended knees

 

This is the body I love

And I have regained it

🌷(5)

2022

◄ Terry Hall

King Charles is more Important than You ►

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David R Mellor

Tue 3rd Jan 2023 18:38

Thank you stephen and best wishes for the new year

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Stephen Gospage

Sat 31st Dec 2022 14:27

A very powerful poem, David.

Best wishes.

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