Who I Am
You don't know who I am
So why tell me what to be?
You don't know what I've done
So why tell me how to feel?
Why can't you say my name
Without wanting to rip out your throat?
Why do you force me to pretend
To be the person you thought you knew?
Why do you think that what's in my pants
Should tell me what to wear and how to act?
Why won't you listen
When I tell you who I am?
Why does my gender
My sexuality
Offend you?
Why does it hurt you
To see me being true to myself?
Why can't I be me?
This poem is about:
Me
My community
Our world