Body Heavy Poem by Erin Cowart

Beyond this body
This heaviness that encloses
There I exist

Brain wrapped in skin
Thoughts trapped in brain
Words put to paper

Beyond these thoughts
A weariness that pervades
There I live

Actions wrapped in body
Movement trapped in mind
In the end all for naught

When this body heaviness
Is done with the world
And these thoughts and wearinesses consume
It will be time

To lay it down
Existing as if I had never been and
Never existing
As if I had lived for millions of years


And only you
My love
To mark my passage here