Submissions by maggetator

I am a bearded lady
in the
suffocating circus tent called
life.
I am the outcast that
earns my tormentors fame as they
ostracize,
beat, and
traumatize me for
daring to exist.

I am the clown that everyone
laughs at, juggling
knives of depression with my hands
while balancing
anvils of anxiety on my head.
One wrong move, one

push

then the balance I built so
tediously comes
crumbling down.

I am the tiger that makes you
gasp and point.
Dazzling,
exotic,
majestic,
terrified of...