Peter Devonald
Inscriptions
Trauma twists our bodies inside out,
lymphatic system stalls, stresses, weakens,
then goes into overdrive.
Tragedy embraces immune-mediated diseases,
overactive autoimmune fight or flight;
we suffer illness from stress.
Stress is violence of mind,
the mind and body inextricably linked
the sins of the father / mother / ourselves;
cruelty of the mind, means suffering of the body,
anxiety, post-traumatic stress, the body implodes
drinking slow acting poison, attacks itself.
We have no answers but toxic medication –
cures cause more symptoms, more illness,
bodies out of balance, ordeals break equilibrium –
shatters continuity, scars our future,
causes complex sickness,
we slip and fall, our body weakens.
Bodies inscribed with complex hieroglyphics,
every abuse, trauma, ghosts and ghosting,
every flaw and dirty hand marks with slippery fingers,
every tragedy poisons the contours of our skin,
every hatred and denial, all blemish the history of us,
written on the body, scarred in memory.
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