I hate myself for being a man.
I do not know who I am anymore.
I am chained in Plato’s dark cave.
I knew my place,
but that place has gone.
I knew my feelings
but they are wrong.

To be a man is all I am,
but to be a man is not enough.
So, I will be a person , a body,
a soul–anything but what I am.

 

1/11/2024