Not A Girl Poem by Chai McLain

A statement in itself
but hard to fathom
but true
I whisper
in defeat
as it falls
on deaf ears
I am not a girl
I scream into the void
upset
he cannot see
I remind myself though the pain
that I am not a girl
and never have been
I remind them
hopeful it'll stick
that
I am not a girl
but something completely different
me