When I Am Me

I walk with my shoulders slumped, eyes lowered,

I hide from the world; it doesn’t understand me.

I am not normal, I am not like them, I am me,

I know I am different; I don’t understand it either.

The day taunts me, the light exposes my secrets,

Secrets, I try to keep, so desperately, I am scared.

But it’s the night that nurtures me, conceals me,

The darkness opens its arms for me to dissolve into.

In the darkness, nobody judges me, nobody scares me,

At night, I unleash myself, I let myself transform.

It’s the night that accepts me when my eyes glow red,

My hair turns to ropes of dark, its chains, its shackles.

My shoulders straighten and I command the sky,

I let the blackness run in my veins, I set them free.

I let the shadows do my dirty work, I just watch them,

I let them devour, devour humans who dare look at me.

I let my form grow, grow till it touches the sky and stars,

Till I feel empowered, till I am bigger than all of humanity.

It’s the night that accepts me when I fly into it, touching it,

It’s the darkness that hides the filth I coat my lips with.

But when the time comes it will be the day that I will rule over,

It will always be the light that I will capture when I am me.