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Angela Bridgman
Poems
Jun 2016
Hermit Crab
As a hermit crab does she dwell
Safe within a borrowed shell
Here she lives in fear
Of the outside world
She feels so near
She exists here all alone
Only home she's ever known
Fearing what she'll find
Danger lies ahead
Safety left behind
No longer confined, free at last
All her doubts now in the past
Free now to explore
All the places
She feared before
Written at age 31, one week after returning from my gender reassignment surgery in Bangkok, Thailand
#transgender
#hermit
#crab
Written by
Angela Bridgman
47/Transgender Female/North Carolina
(47/Transgender Female/North Carolina)
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