I remind myself you live in my body
my right palm placed above my left breast, on my chest where your love lives

you bring me back
into my body

I used to avoid these spaces
the places my body blocked itself locked itself from feeling

“She keeps her head in the clouds”, they said of me
not knowing it was safer up there
I could narrate the story up there
distracting myself from the one my body kept asking me to read

but fear doesn’t live in my heart anymore
you do.