poetic pages

bodies

our bodies

weren't meant to contort

for other people 

to bend and break 

by their will 

we weren't supposed to be possessed

by the needs and desires of one another

to walk like the exorcist 

down a flight of stairs 

but we do

by human nature 

and ignore the pain in our joints 

for fleeting love 

and everlasting lust 

sometimes I believe 

that Shakespeare wrote us