how in a world so diverse should that invisible line be drawn that requires me to conform to your beliefs no matter what i believe to be right or wrong you talk of creation you preach your faith you've explained to me over and over again how god doesn't make mistakes you've admitted my faults before you ever had the chance to know who i am or what i stand for nor have you ever sought any of the secrets i sow you will never understand even if you were ever to try what it is, to look into your own reflection knowing all your life that you were living a lie no chance family would understand likely, they'd casually disappear so you hold it inside and you begin hating your life and you wrap yourself up within a blanket of fear no where to go if you ever came out except shelters or straight out there on your own you know this is likely going to be your fate so you suffer in the silence alone now in a world where answers are written in code everything seems upside down at times coming out was the scariest thing i've ever done but coming out has saved my life for the first time in forever i have the strength to just be me all in all, i'm learning it doesn't really matter what anybody else out there thinks from time to time, and time again i know your stares will pierce me to the bone your words will bruise me and your convictions will condemn me but nothing you can do or say will destroy my soul living in a world scattered with natural born women and men within a culture that panics at the thought of change where differences are imaginary weaknesses and everybody strives to be the same i find the courage to stand proud and tall and i begin this journey when at times i might feel afraid and alone i am trans, and although my life anew has now barely begun for the first time in forever, now i have hope