23/01 Lili Elbe

Tears drip down my face
As I am related the story of her death
As she strived against all odds
To be who she was from the very start
As the wife-friend sat there crying
Holding her hand and trying
To help her husband become a girl
They were a couple beyond reasoning
A celebrity pair
That painted their dreams on dreams
On a canvas fair
And he only wanted
To be she who he always was
There was surgeries that she survived
That she strived through, that she
Became through -
And she painted the feelings
And she suffered the feelings
And she held onto those feelings
As she was he, was she
Became she
Who always was a she