Some may ask why my heart bleeds.

Deep beneath this external facade lays a boy that feels lost.

He's conflicted and filled with self-hatred.

He just wishes he could be sedated.

To forget all this pain.

 

Lost in his despair, he feels that this life was never fair.

His gender, his identity, did not conform to who he was.

The parts that caused him pain he wanted to cut off, just so he could somehow belong.

But the labels, the names, set all in this game of put downs.

 

Life isn't fair, he had lost his will to care.

Like a marry-go-round he was caught by the forces that be.

Living life going from tree to tree, flower to flower, like some little honey bee.

 

Most forget that the thing between your legs dosen’t make who you are.

It’s unfair.

It’s almost like a health scare knowing that you’ll never be whom you know you should be.

 

The world likes to place the blame, call you out as weird and a freak every day of the week.

As if this identity has somehow made you weak.

But I don’t care. I am what I am.

I'm sure many of you know how much I love poetry. But after watching this video this is what came to my mind. I absolutely love slam poetry and the way it expresses ones deepest of pains or desires. I'm not saying this poem above is an epic tale, but it's what my heart spoke from the other side. Hope you liked it.