I.
*******
****.

II.
I will do anything you tell me
to stop hurting
people.

III.
But you won't tell me
a ******* thing.

I.
Don't hit your child
because of something they can
never control.

II.
If you aren't able to
raise someone
who's queer, disabled, or mentally
"Wrong", as you'd call it,
don't raise anyone at all.

III.
You can't expect your
idea of a perfect child.

I.
It's a little confusing how
I'm in so much physical pain
I cry sometimes.

II.
But sometimes when I'm
crying I want to
hurt myself.

I.
To be honest it's
a struggle to make connections sometimes.
People are
far away and
I'm a scared of
hurting.

I.
Repulsed by an
unasked for castration by nature,
wrong from birth but
I'm getting better.

II.
Take me home and
take me in,
I'm not whole but I want to begin
again.

I.
Maybe in the spring
I'll shoot in color.

II.
I've watched the world through
gray lenses
for all the winter long.

I.
I want to go where
the wind doesn't bite and
the nights aren't cold.

II.
I want to go where
I don't have to fight and
maybe I'll grow old.

III.
I think you can call that
home.