Monarch
"I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied"
a line in my favorite song
Down in a Hole by Alice in Chains
It explains the breach between my parents and me
because it's funny to be embraced
It's funny to hear "I love you"
When it's only spoken to the false image of me
I have been building for years.
Because according to your rule book
I love wrong,
My identity is wrong
I am wrong.
When you find out, will you say those words?
That haunts me?
Will you declare in the name of God
I am going to hell? Will you laugh?
I have spent my waking years trapped in a chrysalis
Is it wrong that I am a moth instead of a monarch?












