By: Penda Smith
And again,
in between a black lives matter movement,
I scream my own rebellion.
I do not branch from man,
I am womb man,
Remember whose body you be from.
War is inevitable when two bodies want to inhabit the same land,
when two lands want to inhabit the same body.
when one body connects two lands,
when one land transverses two bodies,
when two bodies claim two lands,
when two lands fight to exist,
when two lands deny each other existence,
when two bodies deny each other existence,
when two bodies birth the same land,
when two lands birth the same body,
when one body births two lands,
when one land births two bodies
when two bodies births one body
when one body denies two bodies,
when two bodies plus gun equal one body
when one body sees one body,
when two bodies plus gun mean three bodies,
when one body subtracts one body two bodies become one body,
when one body still sees one body in one land
when one body bleed two bodies in one land
when two bodies vomit one body in one land
when one land loves no body
when one land claims no body,
when one body loves one land
when one land swallow one body two bodies vomit in one land
when two lands fight two bodies,
when two bodies subtract, one body leaves no body,
This leaves a body,
my body.
The skin that covers this body is a threat to every body.
One gun,
sees two bodies,
and men like you only see one body.
We scream in the same body,
We scream in the same land,
We cry in the same body
We cry in the same land,
We drowned in the same body
of water.
but
War is inevitable when two bodies are two bodies