Broken Body

Telling you how my body is broken
Oh, no, it can't be told by words

Expressing my broken body by writing
Oh, yes, it can be expressed by texts

Broken body is beyond our sensory perception
Only using our heart to feel for the body -
it is breaking, breaking, breaking

What broken body?
The broken body is experienced only by the one with it
Through writing is the only way slowing the breaking process

How writing cures the broken body?
Simply, the mind will be free; the heart will be uttered
Turn out, the body can be restored, the broken can be healed

by Zenobia Chan, student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
7 December 2001

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"Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy - 'to stand outside' -comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away."
- bell hooks