Oh shapeshifter

You taught me

To change forms

Simultaneously

Blue skinned fighter

Somehow you birthed

Someone equally queer

Nightcrawler

An escape artist

Just like you

For our suffering

For a way

Out not forward

Leaping

Leaving

Who are you?

Really

Who are you?

Really

What is authenticity when every seven years the human body’s cells are completely replaced?

And yours…

Every Saturday morning

Bloody haired lover

Somehow you adopted

Someone equally queer

Rogue

Untouchable Angel

Just like us

For our power

For a way

Through not around

Searching

Seeking

Who am i?

Really

Who am i?

Really

You are the first time I saw myself on screen, I cried as you morphed sexes and races and species. Somehow You escaped

After a week

Of straight bullying

Oh shapeshifter

Throughout time

They call you

Many names

For a night

They fear you

Many times

For a year

The way you

Become another

In a lifetime

Who are we?

Really

Who are we

Really

you taught me how to hold a bit too much of others, how to see others so fully that you became what you loved and hated again

Slowly revolting

Bones bending

Churning and convulsing

Skin cracked

Oh shapeshifter

You showed me

To change forms

Sequentially