First be a boy or a girl or other

Grow up and maybe get lost on the way

Weather the winter, wish it were summer

Try a little to be Someone someday

Red lips, bleached hair, denim jeans,

white sneakers

Strive to be unique like everyone else

Live in moments, believe in forevers

Paint worlds in black and white, live

in pastels

Get braces for that American smile

Pierce your skin with vermeil; mark it

With ink

Throw up your fears; taste the rising bile

Hang chains on your neck, in your skin

They sink

Get high on rights and truths you don’t

Yet know

Get drunk on those American Dreams

Get lost in illusions, imbibe sorrow

Sing solo anthems of imagined themes

Your tomb they will cover with Indigo

With white carnations and red rose petals

From your bones will rise a sweet afterglow

I will be there to blow out the candles.