30 day poetry challenge: day 5

I am me

I am not white, I am not black,

I am not gay, I am not straight,

I am not male, I am not female,

I am not trans, I am not cis.

I am not like you, nor you me,

I am not like he, nor like she,

Not like you would have me be,

I am me.

I am my character, my passion,

I am my strengths and my weaknesses,

My pride, my faith, my loves and my hates.

Be you male, female, straight, gay, bi, pan,

Be you black or white, able or not,

You are not me, not him, nor her: you are you.

A somewhat irregular sonnet once again, but nonetheless rather pleasant. It is inspired by Ernst Jandl’s My own song, and reuses some of the ideas from my previous poems.

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