For centuries a slave,

Gladiolus for your character I crave.

I can resist gender belief,

But Allium, pray, where is your patience against grief?

Valeriana for Health, Strelitzia for Freedom,

Red ginger for Passion and Sunflower, please come.

I shed ages of repression,

And release all weakness,

Destroy the masks in my possession,

Fear is no longer my bleakness.

Reborn, I judge what I yearn to express.

In a world tempted to define and divide,

A mother, a child, a sister and a bride,

At first was I not a soul, a heartbeat, a gaze?

A touch, a smile, a praise?