I am Aias. I taught Cleon what I know
\nof war and love and wisdom. Now his beard begins to show,
\nand I do not want to shame him, so I\u2019ll have to let him go,
\nbut what I tell him never comes out as \u2018goodbye\u2019.
\nI know well there will be others; I won\u2019t have to be alone,
\nbut I\u2019ve prized him as a youth, and come to love him now he\u2019s grown.
\nFor him it\u2019s almost time he took a pais of his own,
\nbut he just looks at me and asks me: \u201cWho am I?\u201d<\/p>\n
Chorus:<\/u> (hummed)<\/p>\n
I\u2019m Melina, but you\u2019ll never know that name,
\nfor only Jeanne will use it, where no ears can hear our shame,
\nwhen all doubts and fears lie dormant and we needn\u2019t play our game
\nas we love in secret groves and fields of rye.
\nThen she helps me don my breeches and she binds my breasts and frowns,
\nbrooding on the news of pyres in Valence and other towns.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re not men!\u201d I say \u2013 she huffs: \u201cWill you be saved by plaits and gowns?\u201d
\nAnd when no answer comes, she turns away to cry.<\/p>\n
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\nI am I am I am I<\/strong>
\nI am I am I am I<\/strong>
\nI am I am I<\/strong>
\nI am I<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m Latifa. She\u2019s called Rym. My sons and spouse must never guess.<\/em>
\nI am Sin-Sumu. I love men. Why would you care?<\/em>
\nI am Jenel. What\u2019s unalike won\u2019t make a pair.<\/em>
\nI am Hermann, and my name is on the list.<\/em>
\nIn my nightmares, I see numbers on my wrist.<\/em>
\nI\u2019m Nahimana, in whom two spirits live,<\/em>
\nthere is balance in my being<\/em>
\nas truth is in my seeing<\/em>
\nand in the names I give.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHalf disgusted, half intrigued they\u2019re watched when they\u2019re kissing in a crowd.
\n\u201cSticks and stones!\u201d they laugh, but all those words are rather rude and loud \u2013
\nif that\u2019s what being \u2018out\u2019 is like, I\u2019d rather lie.
\nBut then mum\u2019s red eyes are staring at the child she\u2019s never seen,
\n\u201cWhere did I fail?\u201d she cries. She\u2019s found the e-mails from Charlene.
\nSo much guilt and love and loss and I\u2019m stuck somewhere in between. . .
\nI guess it\u2019s time I grew some wings and learned to fly.<\/p>\n
\nI am I am I am I<\/strong>
\nI am I am I am I<\/strong>
\nI am I am I<\/strong>
\nI am I<\/strong><\/p>\n