The Missing Bodies List
I’ve lost my body
Where is my body?
Has anyone seen my body?
Mum, I
miss you.
Ever since
losing you,
I’ve lost
myself too.
Life events
you prepare
yourself for
play themselves
out in
front of
me. I’m
a spectator
in my
own body.
The audience
in the
protagonist’s skin.
Like I
am watching
my life
and I’m
in every
scene but
my body
is elsewhere.
Out there
in the
wilderness, lost
in woods
Maybe savaged
by wolves.
I , the
disembodied actor
in his
own film
he is
directing but
somehow feels
strangely lost.
Mum, I
miss you.
I also
miss me.
Sometimes I
feel I’ve
lost myself
for days.
I miss
feeling embodied.
I doubt
my body
will ever
be found.
I’m on
the missing
bodies list.
Not coming
off it
anytime soon.