Normal For My Age
by Barbara Lynn Terry

She looked at the way I was dressed,
And said that I was cute,
That experimenting was normal,
For my age.

Then she said that I shouldn't
Do it anymore because people
Would think bad things about me
That girls, boys just cannot be.

It didn't make any sense what she said,
And I did my best to be who I have to be
In this life of being a girl.
A life I didn't ask for.

But I will be me no matter what,
Or who says different, because
I just have to be this girl in my soul
So I can be happy, complete and whole.

After years and years of living as the girl I am,
I have found that living my life
Is normal;
for my age.

Barbara Lynn Terry

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