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How Do I Know?


How do I know what I am?

Is it by the color of my skin or the gender that I am?

Do my looks, religion, and lovers say who I am?

Society says these exterior qualities define me.

But that can't be the case you see.

I am what whatever I want to be.

So I am what I am. 

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