Prisoner in my own body
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Help!
I’m trapped.
I’m being held inside myself,
I get asked…
Are you a boy?
Are you a girl?
What are you?
Why do you dress like that?
What is wrong with you?
I reply nothing is wrong with me.
They don’t believe me.
What is wrong with me?
Why can’t I be a boy one day?
And a girl the next?
Why can’t I be happy?
Why am I being told what to do with my body?
Is it not mine?
Am I meant to conform?
Why should I?
I am myself,
He, she, him, her.
Neither, or both.
I am still human.
Please don’t make me…
A prisoner in my own body!
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