A Life I Dream

I too deserve what you enjoy unfettered -

A free will to pursue my heart's druthers.

I was born a human first like everyone;

Gender and the distinctions, I dug into it later.

Seeking the fulness, I choose my life,

But never one founded on ideologies.

Manliness, they foisted on me;

It was a massive robe that never befitted me.

When nubile, I was to submit to their choice.

But my heart yearned for something different.

The suffocation of identity I endured for years

And a masculine physique I put on for others.

I yearned to set the lass I had disguised free

And shed the manly skin I was born with.

I long to die, to be my true self

And to resurrect to live the rest content.

I designed my future, becoming the real me.

The wonders of science eased my course.

It took me struggles to shape myself

And bear the gender I never disclosed to their gaze.

Today, I am living the life of my dreams,

Sharing the sole life with one like me.

Protesting storms erupted but were short-lived;

And we have begun to dream together.