Masturbation
Vagina
Rape
Anorexia
Clit
Abuse
Menstruate
Erection
Pubic hair
Sex
Oral sex
Cringe at uncomfortable words
Cough
Begin to pray
Look off to pretend distance
Cold water shock at casual filth talk
Reaction is a question
Why are we so afraid of our bodies?
All of those words make red faces
Notes emphasize real life
Why are we scared of real?
What would it be like to be open
Where talk made for understanding
Being in our skin was comfortable
Bodies unashamed
Freedom in speaking about us
Roots to reason of eating disorders
Hidden pregnancies
Sexual desires
And the quiet hidden never murmured rapes
Think good and hard…
We the American people
Ignore our bodies
Societal taboo
To say I’m a woman
With a vagina who masturbates when I’m not having the sex that I do and I bleed every month just like every woman in this world who may have been violated and cuts herself up at the hidden thought vomiting after meals because she’s not airbrushed in hatred of her body for betrayal making her alone
Learn to love lived in flesh vessel
Speak acceptance unashamed
Of experiences to save
What is left of ourselves.