Behind his face

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Authors note: this is a revision of a poem I wrote for school, because we had to revise some of our poems for an assignment. Its about a transfem oc that i have

She weeped

there in the jail cell at the back of his head


And she dreamed– quietly, because nobody liked her dreams–

She dreamed of carving his flesh into her own, like wood.

In the back of his head prison, she dreamed of freedom,

she dreamed of living


She dreamed of breaking from the cell,

Into a world where the people let her dream.

Into a world where the dream is real.


And still, she dreamed

and still, she weeped.

And still he cried for her riddance

and the riddance of the body she was put in.


The body she wished she could burn like wood

And use the ashes to form her own

So she could say good riddance

to the fear keeping her locked behind his face

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