You can wrap your identity around you like cloak 
or you can fold it up and hide it deep inside your heart 
and either way it's yours to have and to hold, 
but the world won't let you off as easy as that 
when it can read your body
and tell you what you are, 
tell you where you can go 
and what you can do. 
If you hide it, your skin, your body, 
your very being, 
the world may let you go, pass for happy 
but it will erase your past
invalidate all you've ever been 
and constrain all you'll ever be. 
It will take away your voice
leave you silent, homeless in your soul 
but maybe that's a small price to pay 
for something that looks like freedom