Collection of Poems

Being Transgender

Being transgender is like being in a prison cell.

Your physical body is the prison celland your soul is the prisoner.

Suicide rates amongst transgender people is 3x greater than anybody else in the LGBT Community and probably 4x greater than non-LGBT people.

Depression amongs trans* people does not help.

Until transgender people start transitioning, especially young transgender people, we are forever stuck in our prison cell.

Why do we have to be this way?

Why do I have to be this way?

Why us it that couldn't we be born as who we were really meant to be and not deal with all the shit that we weren't meant to deal with?

Why do I have to be me?

Why can't I be somebody else?

I hate who I am and I wish that I was never me.

Everyday I just want to end my life.

All I think about is just ending it all.

I hate being transgender and I wish that I never was.

I don't know why I was born this way and I don't knkw why the universe created me as the way that I am.

My soul is a prisoner and my body is a prison cell.