Understanding The Body

You are more than this body, though,
it has taken much time
to realize this, to fully understand this.

Within this body you exist.
Within this body you experience.
Within this body you are.

Such a simple thing!
Yet how fraught it can all be.

Existing in a place we never chose.

Yet we exist all the same.
This is the gift and tension.

To make the best of all this
is what me must do, and
I confess of it's difficulty.

You are more than this body, though,
of that much I am now sure.
How true it is of all of us.