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Dysphoria
This is a poem regarding gender dysphoria and being transgender. If you do not support that kind of thing, please do not leave rude comments and simply click away. I actually found this poem recently in one of my old journals from almost three years ago now, so there is much history to this poem.
I touch myself
I feel...wrong
Like something's missing
Or isn't supposed to be there
But I ignore the feeling
I get on with life
"I'm just self conscience"
A pitiful lie
Next I turn around
To hear what was said
"Boys on one side, girls on the other"
Is what the teacher says
And I follow those who look like me then
But there's no sense of belonging
I feel out of place
And panic screams inside of me
I am not who I am
There's another inside of me
She screams in chains
Shackled to the curse of a body
The body, shackled to the norm of society
I'm told that I'm supposed to grow old like this
And I die on the inside
It feels like the wrong fuel for an engine
Or a square peg in a round hole
I imagine myself
Beautiful and free
I get told that I'm wrong
But I know it's who I am supposed to be
And so like a caterpillar
I metamorphisize
Until the beautiful butterfly inside of me
Gracefully flies out and away
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Harmony Lane
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