Colour body

This body.

This

Black

Body.

Of flesh

bone and skin.

Of history,

Of culture,

Of multi culture,

Of confusion

and delusion.

This body,

This once baby body.

Once toddler and teenage body.

Grew, matured,

from young adult to adult body.

This soon to be middle aged body.

This one day gone,

body.

This body.

This black body,

Of love,

Of trauma,

Of pain,

Of hopes and dreams.

This body of my story.

Of mystery.

Of faith

thats gone,

come

and gone again.

I hope it comes again.

This body of past made present.

Of good,

Of bad,

Of memories.

This body of creation.

Of destruction ,

Of cells old and new...

This blood body.

This vein body.

This skin body.

This

Brown

Skin

Body.

This fat body.

This fit body.

This masculine and feminine body.

This warm body,

This hot an cold body,

This soft and hard body.

This hurt body,

This healing body,

This warn body.

This predictable body,

This fast and slow body.

This 24/7 body.

This one day dead body.

This from dust to dust body.

This star born and to star return body.

My body,

Your body.

My skin,

Your skin.

Same skin,

different skin.

just a question of

how much melanin.

My sex,

Your sex.

Born from the same place.

My face,

your face.

Just a versions of the same face.

Eyes,

Nose,

Ears,

Mouth.

This miracle body.

This growing body.

This once baby body.

Once toddler and teenage body.

Grew, matured,

from young adult to adult body.

Soon to be middle aged body.

This one day gone... body.

Ageing on me.

Skin elastic,

Expanding,

Fading.

Cells separating.

Dna regenerating.

Telomeres degenerating.

This black body,

This brown body,

This colour body.

This Nigerian body,

This African body,

This Black British body.

This migrant body,

This racialized body.

This rightsized,

My size,

Couldn't choose size

Body.

This sacred body.

This brave body.

This anxious body.

This fight or flight body.

This abused body.

This scarred body.

This strong body.

This fearless body.

I have the first and last of this body.

I am the first and last of me.

you have the first and last of your body,

you are the first and last of you.

This body,

My body,

My black body,

My brown body.

Inspired by history,

Thought made flesh.

These eyes.

Left eye,

Right eye,

My eye.

This nose,

This big nose.

These lips,

These big lips.

These

Beautiful,

Big,

Lips.

This hair.

My hair,

Once long hair,

Once short hair.

My afro hair,

My facial hair,

My racial hair.

What do you care what I look like?

Why do you care what I look like?

Why do you choose what you like and don't like?

Why do I choose what I like and don't like?

What has shaped my experience of your body?

What has shaped your experience of your body?

What has shaped my experience of my body?

What has shaped my experience of me?

This body.

My body.

Conditional love for my body,

Conditional love for me.

I have conditional love for my body,

I have conditional love for me.

I have conditional love for your body,

Sometimes I have conditional love for you.

I care because i think you do,

I care as much as my environment has taught me to.

And yes,

society taught me too.

so i make mistakes too.

I hope to work through this.

I hope we can work through this,

I hope we can get through this.

For love of my body,

For love of your body.

For love of young and old body.

For love of abled and alternately abled body.

For love of big and small body.

For love of all body,

For love of all colour body.

Is love

of life.

Love of your life.

Love of my life.

Love of you.

Love of me.