Just Me

from Vanishing Into a Thin Chair by Dani Lee Pearce

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im not related
im just me
im the invisible rings around every planet and everything

im every leaf of grass
every stem of every plant
im the smiling face inside your night light
im the stroke of genius in the pen or the pick in your hand

im not related
there are not others
ive never been born
i am just me

i am the sound that your eye makes when you see your partners
i am the sound your head makes
when your thoughts get darker

i am the words "i am a girl
always have been and always will"
i am the sound of four tires
screeching away from childhood hills

im not related
there are not others
never been born
im just me

hold me while i scream in their direction
reach into my body and pull out the poisoned section
close it up again with a gentle thread
take away the hurricanes tell them the earth inside is all dead
spill out fractured letters written in a quivering red
burn the bridge that fed you
bathe in its ashes
nothing left to have said

some have called me mother
some have called me daughter
some have called me girlfriend and honey and things that are so much softer
some didnt know me
told me to sing them a song
i coughed up two broken words in tears and they sang along

im not related
there are not others
never been born
im just me

even if you tell me your family
in the end im just me
expect me to aggressively call you a good friend, im just me
expect me to be nothing more than unfulfilling, i never could be anything more than just me

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from Vanishing Into a Thin Chair, released June 28, 2020
written May 20, 2017

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Dani Lee Pearce Denver, Colorado

nb trans songwriter orignally from the west coast

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