This body has survived for
three-quarters of a century,
twenty-five or thirty thousand
risings of the sun.
This body has carried me
to school, to work,
to love, to being free
from daily labor,
and yet--
it is not me.
More naked I cannot be
until this body
sets me free.
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler.
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