feralsuggestion:

it feels strange to call myself a poet.

i’m a person whose body remembers
what it used to be
remembers too much of what came before
and reminds me every day
“i miss it.”

i’m a broken body with a strange soul
a need to wander
and a fear of getting lost
a want to feel
and a hesitance to love.

i am many things, but
“poet” is too human
too foreign
too formal
and i think i’d rather call myself “wild.”