Take my face
My identity
My mask is all this world knows of me
But they will make me into a monster
Created by society
They paint it themselves
The way they think it should look but I
Am wearing the skin of my mother

She killed herself to give it to me
But I miss my face
And I hate this mask

They tell me I cannot cut my hair

Under the flesh that belongs to another
I say nothing
I tell no one
I writhe within my adopted skin
They tell me it is sin

But God is a noose around my neck
My gender is a cage I cannot break

I hate this flesh
It has betrayed me