Don't Be

As I've mentioned pretty much every year since I started this blog, April is National Poetry Month and as per the norm I shall be posting a few of my poems.

Here's a poem I wrote last month for trans days of visibility.  Which I stopped doing (obviously) as I kind of got distracted by putting together my own campaign (which I shall be adding soon) but I may go still do some of the prompts and back date them, of which I will make a note if I do.  Anyway here's my poem, I titled it Don't Be. 

This body I am in

Is not my own

It does not belong to me

There has been

A horrible mistake

And because of this mistake

I must endure

People thinking of me

And referring to me

As something I am not

It saddens me

And it angers me

And I want to scream

But I don't

I don't do anything

Don't draw attention

Don't correct people

Don't cause a scene

Don't be different

Don't make people uncomfortable

Don't be yourself

All these rules

Needed to survive

Seem to say

Don't be happy