This is Me

Nerve

How dare you

Label me

Without knowing me

Look into my eyes,

My being

With lips moving

Words saying.

How dare you

Name me

Maim me

I’m not good enough

Yet you insist

You know all truth.

You once said

I was a word

Called me it

By name too often!

It seared, screamed

Across my soul

Left a scar

That I can’t erase

No matter how hard

I rub

How dare you

Call me beautiful