Thick Skin

I believe in love, I don’t believe in sex and gender You can’t take a person and break her or bend her To believe in something that you believe In order to trick or deceive Someone into thinking they have to change So that everyone in this world thinks and acts the same Scare them with God and religion Make them see a world that you yourself envisioned Was the right way, Like you have some God given right to say Or judge someone for who they were meant to be Playing God like your way is the only way to see So that even a reflection doesn’t like the looks of me Preach about love and acceptance and being free But we aren’t free to love who we want, there’s no equality Ask God to give you the strength to accept The things you cannot change, and you haven’t changed me yet So why not accept me and let me be who I am And stop and think that maybe the same man That died for you Died for me too And maybe this is all God’s plan And ...

My heart steadily aching The ground beneath my feet is breaking Crumbling like ash Numbing, here comes the crash I fall but nobody is there to catch me Nobody answers my plea To love or to be loved in return So I stand here in flames and burn In my indifference In my absolute silence When I must crawl back into my cocoon Every time I’m reborn, I’m destroyed just as soon As I have spread my wings to fly I cradle my heart in my hands and watch it die I watch it stop beating I keep it bleeding Because the stitches just burst at the seams Each time I try, each time I have seen My beautiful handy work turn so obscene Every forward motion taking me back to where I’ve been And I’m trapped here Lost in my own fear That I will never be better, I will always be human I will never be quite enough for anyone