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Words of dysphoric rambling

Sitting with the girls never felt right 

But guys activate my fight or flight

It’s so hard to be friends with them

Hard to ask how they’re doing 

But it feels right

Don’t know why…

 

I just thought that the girls were bitches

But they weren’t that bad

It wasn’t a gut instinct 

Just dysphoria I had 

 

And I wanna be a guy

I’m envious of everything

I try not to be

But envy’s my greatest sin

 

I wanna have their hair

And I wanna have their clothes 

But I can’t seem to get it

I look like a girl and none knows 

 

I wanna be a guy so badly 

I wanna pass but still look nice

I hate to think that

I’ll be a girl, the next 

Four years of my life

 

I know I’m a guy

It’ll always be that way

But none else will think that

They don’t have my brain

 

I wanna be a boy

Don’t wanna be fake

Even if most people

Will never see it that way

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Flyntland

Sun 23rd Feb 2025 10:13

A gentle sad poem written sympathetically and wistfully.

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