Becoming Something Else (Myself) - a poem

"Not a single thing in this world isn't in the process of becoming something else. Likewise you." -Skye from Cyberpunk 2077

a gif from the video game 'Cyberpunk 2077', where Skye is talking to your character as they're lying in bed: "You have been keeping up. You've made an impact. Not a single thing in this world isn't in the process of becoming something else. Likewise you."

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Born a blank slate: Others assigned me my gender, my name, dictated what to say and how to say it— Un-becoming me with every should and should not before I even got to know core me, only to become someone other than the projected hollowgram that was shoved down my throat and stitched into my stardust soul.

I defied all that was prophesized by those who only ever saw this self as wrong, never right: an agreeable woman with doe eyes, loose thighs, malleable mind. NO!

Me: a person, part phoenix, normalcy defied, leading an unconventional life that was never anyone else's to define, just mine.