“This human shape is making me alien in my own skin, what a waste!”

“I am up for display,
I’m playing the game, it’s not in my nature, so I must
Destroy myself to create
A separate face, I’m writhing on stage,
I’m making a name for myself in a tongue I don’t quite understand.
Take me back to my motherland!”

“I try to keep my head intact,
I bite my nails when they grow back.
I’m trying to keep up the act
So you don’t suspect a thing, or that I am-“

“Despite the human urge to loathe,
I gush and spew and overflow.
Your human eyes are on my throat,
I want to disappear!”

“Though cursed with human tendencies
To rend apart the bones and meat
Of anything that makes me feel afraid,
I’m twitching in the love I bleed
And crying out for some relief,
My human lips can’t find the shape to rid you of your apathy.”

“All the real people with human souls will see I’m not human at all,
I’ll never be a person til I learn how to be cruel.”