The world is sucking me in
and I don't give a damn.
Let them pull-let them tempt me.
I will drink their wine
sing their songs
and I will know them.
The world is driving me home
to their houses
to lie in their beds.
I will eat with them
finding my misery sweet.
I will walk their paths
travel their roads
so they might know me
as familiar.
I will use their words
and facial expressions.
The world desires my hand-
I will extend it.
We were born from the earth
out from between the legs of women
who have known men.
The world returns, going in-
coming out,
unwillingly greeting their fate.
I will join the cycle
with only the hope-
I will not become one of them.
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