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Tales of a man in the right body


My body talks to me in the night time

Drowning it in white wine

White crimes placed upon me

They say I'm a man trapped in a woman's body

How can that be?

I used to love me

Scared of myself and my anatomy

This ain't the man that I’m supposed to be

Surgical solutions won't fix the pain inside of me

Detached, unattached

Tales of a man

I'm tellin you i'm real what dont you understand

You lookin at me crazy

This aint the man im supposed to be

They say a man's manhood is hidden somewhere in his genitals

Where’s mine?

A penis was never on my timeline

The younger me was stuck on being man enough

Stuck on being tough enough

Toxic in my masculinity enough

The only part of manhood that seemed to matter in this world was ones physicality

I was mad at me

Why wasn’t I man enough?

Why wasn’t I strong enough?

Why wasn’t my voice deep enough?

No one would love a man without a dick

No one would understand my soul

The younger me needed different body parts to feel whole

But see that aint me no more

I'm leaving that boy in the past

My spirit is what makes me a man

I am man enough, no description needed

My soul speaks even when I choose not to listen

My body is not the enemy

This is a man body

I've been afraid of myself for too long

When all along I've been in a mans body
I've been in my body
It's the right body because it's mine
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