Tag: flesh

To Be Human

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I have learned not to neglect the physical

because I live on the physical.

How can I ignore the earth when I was born from it?

Not the first womb.

Not the first place my human self called home.

And I have learned not to neglect the spiritual

because it is higher than the physical.

It will help me to transcend the works of my flesh.

Both important.

Both necessary.

Neither forsaken.

Oh nothing, just getting back to my poetry.

Flesh vs. Spirit

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My anxiety is loud

but so is this victory

so is this freedom

so is this awakening.

My mind is a Warzone

where black and white spirits roam

both demons and angels alike

where sorrow and freedom are both soldiers

fighting for the opportunity to possess me

to take up space

that is the residence

of my conscious.

My body is a battlefield

that society tries to sacrifice to its traditions

and I try not to bleed out

on people who never cut me

since I am both spiritual

and fleshly

like you

So I shackle myself to my integrity

being both in chains and free

enslaved to nothing but truth

a special kind of liberation

submitted

as I strive to overcome this war

between my flesh

and my spirit.