A Little Shake Up
Salutations!
While there won't be a new poem tomorrow, there will be something coming at you later in the morning that I hope you enjoy.
Love you all!
Poetry for people who could use a little kindness
Salutations!
While there won't be a new poem tomorrow, there will be something coming at you later in the morning that I hope you enjoy.
Love you all!
There are people that want to take my right to live to erase people like me to force me to live in misery
I know they aren't all evil But they don't want to understand me And they do want to control me So how can I trust them?
Especially when They bully me into compliance Threaten me into hiding Force me to follow their rules
But one thing they will never do is make me give up
I refuse
No matter what else they take from me they will never take my hope my will to fight
I refuse
When they try to smother me I will scream out louder
When they try to keep me down I will rise up stronger
When they try to break my spirit I will refuse to give up
#Poetry #TouchTheClouds #Determination #Hope #Trans #TransRights
I'm not a monster like they make me out to be I'm just trying to be true to myself, to be the real me
I don't understand, I've got a medical condition It's called “gender dysphoria”, but they won't listen to my cries, to my tears, no they just don't care all they wanna do is lie and cheat and scare They don't understand and they don't want to The way people are, why they do the things they do They call me selfish and a liar, say I'm coming for your children Then they try to ban proven science and call me a villain Yeah, maybe I'm a little selfish once in a while but it's okay to do things for me, things that make me smile I'm not a monster like they make me out to be I'm just trying to be true to myself, to be the real me
They call it “chemical and physical mutilation”, it makes me so mad! Would they say the same thing to someone with cancer in their nads? They insult the experts, call their work “junk science” yet those people have proven time and again they've earned our reliance Do they really think I came to this idea on a whim one day? Do they have any inkling how hard it is to be this way? I take pills every day, injections every week And I've got millions of people shouting that I'm a freak I didn't ask to be this way, this isn't a choice I just want to love my body, my face, my voice Gender-affirming care isn't wrong, it saves lives Did you know the percent of people happier for it is greater than 89? I have a voice to speak, a stage on which I stand so I want you to know, I want you to understand there's nothing wrong with this, it's okay to be this way no matter what those people out there say I'm not a monster like they make me out to be I'm just trying to be true to myself, I just want to love me
I just want to be true to myself I just want to love me
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We don't belong here They don't want us They won't accept us Even though it's all we know
We can keep trying Changing ourselves to fit in But when I do that I suffocate
I want to be me So I'm going to find a place Where I belong Even if I have to make it myself
I'd like it if you were there too The outcasts, the misfits We have our own place somewhere And we'll get there
One day
Mirror, Mirror, what do I see? My own self-loathing reflected back at me I've changed so much, and yet all I do is look in you and fret My face isn't the same at all I'm even learning how to walk tall but I can only see what I believe: this self-doubt that never wants to leave So I'll repeat day after day the affirmations I've learned to say in the hopes that I'll make it real that it will become the way I feel I'll cast away these feelings blue the feelings, Mirror, Mirror, I can't hide from you
I took a hit and at first I needed to stay down to recover
I stayed curled up crying from the pain but my tears have stopped even if the pain hasn't
I can get back up struggling to stand and look the enemy in the eye so they know I won't stay down forever
What everyone needs to understand is that I'm fighting for my dreams sometimes, I need to stay down but I will always get back up
Because I will never give up
Sometimes my brain is sharp on point, focused, dedicated I can take on any problem the world throws at me
Sometimes my brain is stressy scared, overworked, overwhelmed I have to hide inside and recover before I can do anything at all
Sometimes my brain is loopy silly, goofy, unfocused It's gonna be a while before I can function reliably
My brain is different Different moods, different feelings But I'll always remember that however my brain is right now
It's okay to be that way
I want to be kind to offer others a hand without fear that they're using me
I want to be vulnerable to let others know they're not alone without worrying that others will use it against me
I want to be at peace unafraid of the world around me not wondering who it's safe to trust
This world doesn't exist yet but maybe one day, it will
One day We'll all love one another Share kindness without fear or attempting to gain something
One day We'll all trust one another feel safe together and know it's gonna be okay
One day, we'll get there
One day
When I was feeling sad isolated and alone I sat down with you to run across the stars
When I thought that life was too much I cried with you and chose to carry on
When I was lost with no idea what to do I traveled with you and you told me I was special
All those times after all those years there was a lot I needed but most of all
I needed a Doctor