See the problem is
I have way too many stories
Spanning multi-categories
Let me pull from inventory
This quarry bore
From age five
To beyond dormitories
Like scattergories,
Claiming all territories
With no guts & no glory
Emotional outpouring
Exploring my yearn for
Restoring and adorning ME
Who I was born to be
Not the little girl who finally
Spoke and no one believed
The one who stood
And still couldn't see
Felt I had no voice
Or was so perceived
So misconceived
It was normalcy
Now I am taking
No diplomacy
In ceremoniously
Celebrating my potency
Copiously
My body's my poetry
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My Body. My Body
(Nope)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
Keep your hands
To yo got damn self
It took a long time
To admit it The stories are hidden
Memory forbidden I'd like to forget it
Erase any trace
Of the trauma
Embedded Wipe a clean slate
So I don't
Feel so heavy But here I stand firm
Stance on the land I am
The sum
Of the experience I can not deny
For the sake
Of appearances
(Nah nah) Every time
That they've
Crossed the line Taken a piece
Of a thing
That's mine The first time
Was an
Innocence stolen The last time
I fought not
To be broken The words unspoken
Burn a hole in the soul Cannot be buried
Cannot control Truth that I have found
Is the way on forward
I myself am the one
To make me whole I lay the rules
Of my body temple
I myself am the one
To make me whole
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My Body. My Body
(Nope)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
Keep your hands
To yo got damn self
My kindness
(Uh Uh)
Is not permission
My compassion
(Uh Uh)
Is not permission
My existence
(Uh uh)
Is not permission
Mutual consent
Is what is missing
There's a difference
Between hearing
And listening
The Silence is crippling
It's violent conditioning
For every One that speaks
Thousands unspoken
Women and children
The one
Who've been broken
My own story
Bares scars of shame
Of innocence stolen
Internalized pain
That's the thing
About this type of hurt
It leaves behind
A lifetime of work
Rapists, rapists
Everywhere I see
From white house clergy
To the penitentiary
White politicians
Who practice black arts
Who make and enforce
These laws
With black hearts
Hidden in plain sight
Wicked hierarchy
We will never know
Peace under patriarchy
Unravel, unlearn,
Rebuild fall apart
All hope is not lost
At home it must start
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)
My Body. My Body
(Nope)
My body
(Don't Touch)
My Rules
(Unh Uhh)