There will be nights you want to hide and mornings where you will insist on living big — both are brave. You are allowed small mercies: a sweater that fits like affection, a song that sits behind your ribs. You are allowed to change your name in the quiet of your mouth, to rearrange pronouns like furniture until they fit.
Someone called you “transangel” once — a word stitched from two bright, dangerous things: a name-hope like wings, and the gentle unmaking of what people thought they knew. You carry both like an old light: sometimes the bulb floods the room; sometimes it trembles, and you learn to trust that trembling as signal, not shame. transangels daisy taylor any time any place free
There are people who will keep inventory of you — label, categorize, decide where you fit. Let them have those lists. Your whole life refuses to be catalogued on one shelf. You are weather and map, an argument and a lullaby. You are permitted to arrive and to leave, to rest and to rage, to be tender in a way that is not indebted to anyone. There will be nights you want to hide