I Am Transitioning
From a hideous person
To a beautiful person
And yet….
No surgeries are scheduled
No amount of pretty plastic
Puttied around a putrid
Appearance will alter my
Perception of how I see
Myself internally
Likewise, no knife is sharp enough
To cut off the layers of linear
Accumulated self doubt and anger
No amount of bandages and time
Will heal the gross misunderstanding
Of the value there is in just being here
Words are the cure
Magical mystical words
Using divine dialog
Repeated in the reverse ad nauseum
To auto suggest I may have value
There is creativity in kindness
Beauty in perceptions
Patience in infinite supply
And just when I think I have
No closure for this blog post
My musical muse presents
A song on the radio, I’ve never heard
By a band that I do not know
At just the right time and place
“Might Love Myself”
“Think I might
Think I might love my-
Think I might
Think I might love myself
I thought love was overrated
And I don’t know how to take it
Still chasing ghosts
I feel so unsure
And I sold myself a lie
Still gave it one more try
Gave everything that I had and more
Couldn’t happen to me
Couldn’t happen to me
Couldn’t happen to me
Ooh, then it
Took my body over
Lost all my composure
Never felt quite like this before
Chemistry is changing
Emotions rearranging
I’m outta my cage
Breaking my spell
Think I might
Think I might love myself
Trade my hope for pain
Still hate who I became
How long am I gonna be young and lost?
Might never feel right
Never be clear
But nothing’ll change until I face my fear
Done paying the price without knowing the cost
Could it happen to me?
Could it happen to me?
Could it happen to me? Yeah
It took my body over
Lost all my composure
Never felt quite like this before
Chemistry is changing
Emotions rearranging
I’m outta my cage
Breaking my spell
Think I might
Think I might love myself
Think I might
Think I might love my-
Think I might
Think I might love my-
Focused on the time
How I’m losing every minute
Gotta make a choice
Gotta push it to the limit
Never felt better
Never making an apology
I’m exactly who I wanna be
I’m exactly who I wanna be
Well, it took my body over
Lost all my composure
Never felt quite like this before
Chemistry is changing
Emotions rearranging
I’m outta my cage
Breaking my spell
Think I might
Think I might love myself
Think I might love myself
Think I might love myself”
– Beartooth
Think of all the wasted money that could be saved
On the Josef Mengele type of deformation surgeries
When it could be replaced by words and dialog
Self reflection transitioning to real self-love
A deep understanding that transcends what
Other people think that unbeknownst to society
Are probably in the same boat of confusion
Just aren’t willing to lop off and add appendages
Oh wait, I forgot, that will not help the economy
Driven to distraction over who should do what
At whatever age a notion occurs at the time
Adolescents playing Dr. Frankenstein with themselves
Because they can and parents allow it as some
Sort of fraudulent freedom, irreversible, now prison
On the gamble that their outer self
Will reflect their inner self / selves
Speaking of gambling
On most legal “gaming” machines
There is a clear rule that states
No one under 18 / 21 is allowed to play
Out of the many reasons, am sure thar
One would be, not having the maturity
Let alone have the money required to play
“Sometimes, I just follow
A dark path…… because
I can not find my way.”
– Angelo Devlin
Brilliant! This is the sanity we need. To embrace the truth of who we are, even when we wish it was something else. There is a power in facing the truth.
There are compelling stories from people who have transitioned and then realized that it was to cope with severe abuse, now wishing they had other tools, that people were honest with them about what reality is and how to deal with it. So much suffering at the hands of the Mengeles who prey on the vulnerable for power and money. When we could help them/us to find that unique special self-expression by actually being themselves!
You are very kind in your ways of opening the hard and challenging conversations so that we can all bring ourselves to the table in love and truth.
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I can’t wait for the next contagion to be identifying as an enlightened loving saint!
Nice song, btw. Never heard of Beartooth before. Always learn something from you!
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This is a heartfelt and compelling story that helps us understand what is behind these vulnerable souls
https://youtu.be/FQvNLFQF9-w?si=KoO9m1KlyyetBOfE
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