I tried to be special
chased thin & shiny pale
but with spots I'm born
I had almost forgotten
I wanted to be spiritual
A sparkling personality
but it demands that you have
genes & predispositions
and that I don't have
& it takes hundreds of years
to hide the faults
I'm lightyears away
deformed & cross-eyed
& it burns like chlorine
like new canker sores
A third grade gets
when everyone is listening to you
Can you protect me?
I just wanted to flee from myself
cut off my inadequacy
but with the spots I've forgotten
I'm already condemned
I wanted to be intellectual
well-traveled, urbane obscenely young
but the inheritance weigh heavy
Genes & predispositions
Everything was a misstake
& it takes hundreds of years
to hide the faults
I'm lightyears away
deformed & cross-eyed
& it burns like chlorine
like new canker sores
A third grade gets
when everyone is listening to you
Can you protect me?
Can you protect me?
Can you protect me?
Can you protect me?
Please protect me