Deny me my Humanity,
No longer.
I’ve performed legal rituals:
Appropriating law as I need it –
To discard my birth names.
Dead names that haunt me still,
As if afraid they might surface.
Tradition,
Myth,
Or Legend,
Is usually about Fae like me –
Stealing your intangibles,
Names,
Memories,
Worse.
Worse.
