The Body Descends - Julia Brown

The body descends, I should have let it

The strongest love I’ve felt in my life

She said «I was born into this life to suffer

And suffer I will»

But if you had to do it all again

Without knowing you’d make it through

Do you think you’d make it?

No, I don’t think I would

My heart is the leaves

My body the trees

And it’s Halloween

I’m strung out again

My body descends

And I’m having this dream

Every night

A room with a view

A room with some light

A stoic front porch

Some mountains outside

I am what I’m not

My problems are gods

When the body descends

We both sit and watch

And the strongest love

I’ve felt in my life

Rises up from the dark

To pull me aside

And across the room

And out in the hall

And outside my house

And out in the yard