Keep On Moving

All the roads I've been onThe life I've led as the world passes me byAll the things I've seen trying to be strongBut in the end, it slowly starts to break me and kills me inside

I've traveled, looking for somewhere to call homeYet my soul knows no rest and I've been everywhereWaking up in cold sweat in empty hotel rooms alonePost traumatic hyper-vigilance from my nightmares

Over and over, it replays Trying to stay sober, keep demons at bayLiving in a transgender body that everyone wants to kill every dayTransphobia running in their brainwashed thoughts and fits of public rageI can't even go grocery shopping—the white supremacists make me feel afraidSo I keep on running, traveling nonstop to avoid a certain death to live another day

The open roads of Amerika is all I have leftA home away from home until the screams and hateful bigotry finally are silenced and I go deafThen I'd never have to worry about what they're plotting to do to meI could ignore the world's hateful who's living in self-hate as a excuse for them to assault me

I've seen all the riots and revolutionsHistory repeating, the abusive cycle no one's breakingI just wanna be free, alive and happy— not caged like helpless and abused animals in a broken white supremacist nationLet me be the trans/genderqueer woman I was meant to be

I can't even step outside my door for a chance to breatheCan't even smoke a little weed to calm the anxietyNot only I'm running from white supremacists but I'm hiding from transphobic cops who wanna put me out of my miseryMotherfuckers always looking for new ways to clap meEven as an innocent trans/genderqueer woman that I am, they just love to rape, murder and assault beautiful trans soul rebels just like me

So I keep on moving, keep on livingKeep on plane-hopping, keep on train-ridingKeep on boat-cruising, keep on bussingKeep on writing the stories to tellKeep on playing the songs to share while the world's going to HellKeep on walking, keep on cryingKeep on laughing, keep on lovingUntil all the right-wingers and wannabe Christians fade awayUntil all the white supremacists and wannabe Nazis are dead somedayThe world needs healing, love, progressive ideals to turn into legitimate policies that would help us all live free and happyNo one gets to slave away and go hungry or cold in povertyEveryone's lifted up, the war is over and we won the revolutionBut until the day of freedom comes, I'm staying the fuck away from America and keep on living as a happy trans/genderqueer woman

Moving always, ever so on the roadWriting, singing, laughing, loving, crying, screaming and breathingSomeday, the world will love my trans rebel soulBut until that day, I keep on moving, fighting, believing and living.

(Fin.)