My body IS NOT your battlefield

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My body

IS NOT

Your battlefield.

For aeons

You have denied

Your sexuality

Your identity

Your privilege

Your power

Or the lack of it all.

You have projected

Your struggle

To take the form

Of religion

Of casteism

Of politics

Of corruption

And fought your demons

On the battlefield

That is my body.

You wanted to fight terror,

I was raped.

You wanted to gain power,

I was raped.

You wanted to punish an enemy,

I was raped.

You wanted to prove your manhood,

I was raped.

BACK OFF!

If you still do not have

The courage to face your fears

Let your demons devour you,

The way my body mourns

An unfertilised egg every month.

Yet it does not hold on

To its fear of not creating

Of not experiencing life.

It submits instead

To death

So the emptiness

May hold potential again.

My body lives

In faith of its power.

You have lived

In the lack of faith

In your power.

May your fear consume you.

May you die to your lack.

May be you will

Be reborn

Remembering

That my body

IS NOT

Your battlefield.