Imagine you’ve been living in this body that doesn’t feel like yours
it's not right, a rented vessel, not you, no not truly
like the label you’ve been slapped with the day you were born is slowly strangling you
you can’t breathe, you can't move
you want to speak out but you can’t
society acts like chains and binds you to that identity you try so hard to reject
every pronoun, her, she, hers, pierces you like a knife
cuz everyone sees you as something you’re not
but who can blame them when the person staring back at you in the mirror
reflects all the things they’ve  forced you to be.
All the things you tried so desperately to escape from
You strip that false body and reveal to the world your true self
You're hit by an unimaginable wave of hate, left thrashing in a deep ocean of contempt. Why... ?
Society is repulsed at your sight, your parents quickly smother  you with that same label again
What hurts more than the bruises or the hateful slurs, the looks, the stares, the whispers
Is slowly drowning in the shadows as you desperately try to hide yourself
Wearing a mask everyday as you slowly cut at your own soul
They look down at you, bibles in hand, shooting religious rhetoric at you like bullets
“Was it not your  god who made me this way ?” you ask yourself
The world is a cage, they clip your wings before you even have the chance to fly
Ostracized until you’ve been completely stripped of  your sanity
No longer do you feel human, there's nowhere left to run
The hatred starts to eat you alive, you're numb to all the pain
There's  only one way to end your suffering, your freedom is staring at you at the bottom of a  barrel
No pain, no judgement in eternal slumber, finally peace, yet at the edge something pulls you back
A friendly smile, concerned eyes, a warmth you almost forgot: love
You’re not alone, a strong outcry sends tremors through the nation
The only thing that can save us all is love, only through love do we neutralize the hate.