I Don't Have to Be Who Everyone Thinks I Am

I don't have to be the person everyone thinks I am

I get to be the one I'm becoming

I welcome remembrance

My sexuality is a gift

My essence is undeniable

My aura has room to shift

I am uninhibited

Now

A wild woman with apathy

yearning for a return to my ancestors

My body calls for reclamation

It requests reparations

for the time wasted

for the time spent not being authentically me

I don't need a permission slip

The only pressure is the throbbing

in my body beckoning for IAM

At any given moment, I'll call her name

let her loose like an arrow

snapping through the wind

A whiplash

like willow stems

lashing remembrance

It hurts, yet I remember

I'm the co-creator of my reality

There is only one me on this earth

until I return to stardust

And when I forget

I flow and remember

Always

IAM