has nothing to do with who you are or need to be. For those of us who have had this girl living inside this deformed body all of our lives, know how much we need to be free and accepted and loved for who we are deep inside this stupid body that society thinks is us. Now while I don't say that being a guy is a bad thing if you are a male, but there are some of us with this stupid male body that just scream because people think that is who we are. And we're not that guy everybody wants us to be, but female in the soul that lives in the damned male body. If only people could see that we are not the preverts, or deranged psychopaths they seem to think we are.

We all need our time to be me. And I never asked to be female, I never asked to be shunned because I am female. But ... I ... am the female that lives inside this vehicle everybody calls a male body. And I will be the best damned female I can be regardless of who says different. Opinions are like butt holes, everybody has one, so just because some bigoted, homophobic jerk who calls him or her self normal says I must be a guy because my body is male, I will make sure that they see me for who I am, and I am a girl, a woman, a female.

I'm sorry I'm rambling on, and this free verse poem does that to me. Anyway "want" has nothing to do with the time to be me. The time to be me is a necessary need, and it is like a drug making us need more and more time to be me, to be the female each of us are in our souls. Even the body we live in has nothing to with who we truly are. Nice writing girlfriend, keep it up.

"With confidence and forbearance, we will have the strength to move forward."

Love & hugs,
Barbara

"If I have to be this girl in me, Then I have the right to be."