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How do I become more than my body?

Where what other can see is the most important factor of my being.

How do I become more than my body?

Where the pigment of my skin decides my worth.

How do I become more than my body?

Where the fabric woven into clothes becomes the language my gender shouts.

How do I become more than my body?

Where my posture writes the boundaries of the space I am permitted to exist within.

How do I become more than my body?

Where what my body can do shapes what the world deems accessible to me.

How do I become more than my body?

Where “normal” becomes a standard my body is expected, but unable to meet.

How do I become more than my body?

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How do I become more than my body when few lingers long enough to meet the person within it?

The rest of me exists in places the eye cannot reach

But our souls can greet one another

If given the time.

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I am more than my body.