Mind speaks first
Cold and clear
Naming every
Shadowed
Fear
Pulling thoughts
From far
To near
Body answers
Slow and tight
Holding heat
From every
Fight
Keeping truths
Beneath
The light
Mind says
Pause
Count
Explain
Break the loop
Unpack
The pain
Turn the storm
To something
Plain
Body says
Move
Push
React
Feel the truth
Before
The fact
Let instinct
Stay
Intact
Mind rewrites
What memory
Knows
Painting past
In colder
Shows
Changing scars
To softer
Glows
Body keeps
The older
Ache
Stored in bone
I can’t
Unmake
Every tremor
Still
Awake
Mind divides
The false
From true
Sorting what
I never
Knew
Splitting me
In
Two by two
Body pulls
The past
In close
Showing marks
I don’t
Disclose
Quiet stories
No one
Knows
So here’s the conflict
Sharp
And bright
Mind wants calm
Body
Fight
Two forces
Locked
In night
And in the silence
After
Their war
I feel both
Pulling
More and more
The mind
To shape
The body
To roar
One self
Caught
Between the two
Learning what
The fractures
Do
Standing still
Inside
The view
Of a battle
Always
Breaking through