MY BODY

My body, a funeral pyre

My body, your sermon of fire

My body, Phoenix before rebirth

My body, six feet under the earth.

My body, a tropical storm,

My body, a child unborn

My body, the music room of fire and rain

My body, a tuneless refrain.

My body, a grieving wife,

My body, harbinger of life

My body, a harlot's curse

My body, a death by verse.