Lobotomija

Prying, spying

Into me

Cutting, deeper

Into me

Changing me

‘For better’

They say

‘Or for worse’

I finish

They don’t accept

Me, us

As we are, I am

Why is different

So bad,

So dangerous?

Originality,

So intoxicating,

Tantalizing, scorned, despised

‘Come be’

They say

‘Like me’

They say

There’s enough

Of you

Too much

Of you

With just

You

Try on my shoes

My life

My mind

‘See me’

I say

‘Be me’

I say

And I am them.