This Is My Body Lyrics

There are two mirrors in my home

And too many days go by in a row

When I avoid them both

I am my own worst trigger

I am my very best cheerleader

Loving myself is acknowledging

There are times

I am not loving myself

There are times I stand in the glory

Of the kindness of my heart

The well of my art

Steady of my dedication

To justice and freedom for all

The curve and soft of my frame

Reach of my fingers

And there are times I long for winter

To hide my body

Under colorful clothes

I wear layers to cover

The poke of my stomach

The dead of my fish

Spread of my thighs

Pollution in my air

Fluffy of my face

My hips

The starvation of my children

The discard of my elders

I'm Black and I'm proud

I'm Black and I'm proud

My country tis of thee

Sweet land of liberty

I shout my mantras

And cover myself

With all this fabric

Under all this smog

With all these propositions

Blinged in all these

Stripes and stars

In hopes that you will be fooled

By my fancy politics

Into loving me too

This is my body

Take

Eat

This is my body

This is my mind to make up

My vote to cast

My right to choose

Don't stand in my way

With your magic wand words

To guilt me out of my grief

My doubt

This is my body

Hung

Stolen

Burned

Sold

My body that I have worked into frenzy

Fire

Spin

Worry

Over what you think

They keep taking my children

Killing my babies

My Trayvon

My Marco

My Latasha

My Hadiya

Kimani Gray

Sixteen years old

Flatbush

Shot down by police

This is my body

I love my arms

And deport my Mexicans

Paint my toes

And cut off my homosexuals

I dye my hair

And rape my women

I work out my abs

And imprison my men

This is my body

This bread

This red

Do this in remembrance of me