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An introduction begins with your name.
Not your raving personality,
Your most inner thoughts,
Or your beaming laugh,
But your name.
I stared longingly,
As she sat across from me.
Now she's gone and no one seems to care
I stood over there,
My face red in shame.
Why won't these strange feelings die in vein.
Stuck
Im stuck
Stuck inside a body thats not mine
Stuck with a name i never wanted
Bound to a character in a show i never tried out for
Someday ill break out of this cage im in
But for now im
I am A GENDER
But i dont know which one
I an A GENDER
maybe i use neo pronouns
like bun?
I am A GENDER
yet undecided?
I am A GENDER
still misguided
attic beams bearing strange fruit
chair on the floor and bruise at the loop
queer friends hanging in the silent eaves
strange fruit dangling from the wooden beams
I long for the feeling of being myself
Will this ever stop?
Thoughts are racing,
Slowly but surely I’m becoming more and more of myself,
And each step I take,
"Princes.""Princes."The word cuts through my skin."Baby girl.""Baby girl.""You'll always be our baby girl"The words hurt and fester inside.The pain I feel when you tell me that I will look like a boy,Because the feeling inside of me because of my
Her eyes shine like stars
Her laugh sounds like guitars
Her smile makes me stutter
Her voice makes my stomach flutter
Gonna overthink about a boy that had I never likedAnd would never like
Because I know that he will never like me back
-3:37AM, Sun. May 2nd, 2021- As I run my fingers over this keyboard, that may I just say is in dire need of a dusting, I can't help but feel a sick nostalgia set in that makes my stomach turn.
I sit here
ready to unlearn
every nonsense I was taugh
All because I am trans
I was taught that I was
I sit here
ready to unlearn
every nonsense I was taugh
All because I am trans
I was taught that I was
You like boys right?
Uh yeah, I do.
Have you found one yet?
Not yet but maybe soon!
You like girls too?
Yeah, that’s true!
You said forever
I guess you didn't mean it
You went for my best friend
What happened to loyalty?
She likes you too
It hurts but if you're happy leave
Go be with her, please do
Who are you in the flesh?Were you always masculine or feminine Or were you just too extreme for the box?
I'm walking at a pride March
and I hear
get out of there
J.k. Rowling an amazing author screams.
I feel my heart crush
I loved her
I scream
"fuck you! I loved you but you have hurt me!"
I want to be heard
I yell, scream, but I'm never heard.
I cry
I scream more
And yell until
My throat hurts.
The only way to be heard is pain.
Hurt others to be heard.
I want to be heard
I yell, scream, but I'm never heard.
I cry
I scream more
And yell until
My throat hurts.
The only way to be heard is pain.
Hurt others to be heard.
Lost. Running through a city,
my thoughts and feelings the cars racing past,
Lost. Without you my dreams turn into nightmares,
Constantly running away from reality.
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But words will never hurt me?
Then call me crystallized
Fragile enough to break at your breathe
You are no Taurus
But your words form a brutish bull
Maybe the clouds will open up and we will be bathed in a golden light, a voice of Heaven, the Creator, rains down like a smile and open arms, speaking the one thing we both wish to hear so desperately.
Here upon this old woven chair
She sits in the land of the inbetween
Perched under a wooden sign post
The one rooted into muscle that sits between our ribs
There at the very tip toe top
Why is it that the very thing that is forbidden
is the only thing that makes me happy. Why
is it that I feel strange when I see her smile and
laugh. Why must she be forbidden to me. I am the
I invite you to gently feel the faint mist of dawn dust your face with dew.
Feel the heavy warmth as the sun breaks the horizon and casts its
shadows across the canvas of earth.
To whom it may concern
I think that any
Bigotry,
Ignorance,
Or prejudice
You harbor deep inside should burn.
I’m afraid of a lot of things.
I’m afraid of the dark, I’m afraid of the thoughts in my head,
I’m 16 and I’m still afraid of the monsters under my bed.
Hi, I'm Sunshine.
I'm a perfectly normal person.
I love helping people,
I raise rabbits,
and I enjoy watching the Arizona Cardinals on Sundays with my dad.
I'm a perfectly normal person.
What if this feeling is delusion
How can I know for sure I'm gay?
I was in the dark for so long
The light is disorienting
Cones and rods receive a technicolor world
But maybe it's illusion
Daedalus shows him how to shave,
Teaches where the razor glides smooth, shows him where his adam’s apple will grow.
It’s a simple task, one better late than never
You hide behind pages withered with millenia of hatred
Each letter an excuse for you to say "I don't care if they hold hands,
Just don't do it front of my kids."
Even the smallest of her affections is your undoing
Wet footprints on the white sand that you won’t tread upon
Only the sea could ever erase the memory of her there
Silence;
was a man i once ‘loved’
he said he lived in the bath
that perhaps
if i held my head
below water
There’s this place I call home
And I don’t know why but it seems to me
That this place isn’t as simple as it used to be
I was a little girl - Their little girl, she her she her
