Lavender

Born into a world where the walls were painted blue

 it's a boy! your mother cried in her hospital room

You play your father's child in his patriotic town

But you wear your mother's lipstick

When you know she's not around

You're crying out why can't they see

The restless fugue of pink and blue

In your identity

A lonesome shroud of dissonance settles in your skin

In your color-coded uniforms you're wearing to fit in

Anxiety's a little league and fear's a locker room

Teenage suffocation in your body's own cocoon

And I know it's not easy

To shed your skin and be the woman

You were born to be