“I saw shame push his head down, I saw the terrible weight of shame hunch his shoulders”

while he tried to protect his heart
I saw fear squeeze their eyes, as if not seeing would make their pain become less
I saw anger clench their teeth, holding back the words they would have wanted to say to make the other person stop

We have crossed borders, continents and oceans but still our bodies are occupied.

When I become a knot within myself
I am not able to move and change something.

All the things that we lean into or avoid.
All the efforts we do to shrink something inside ourselves It happened so long ago, that we forgot its context.
we continued to be there and did not know how to be here Me feeling many. All tied to the same body.