"Karakter"

You have watched me hobbled by circumstances from birth,
living in shame for what I could not help.
You have taunted me with promise of belonging and
an abominable curse until I don't know which to deny,
or whether to cling to both.
You have known my efforts to outrun myself and become,
become What I do not know;
You have seen me fail miserably,
left with who I always have been until the end
When you write 'Father' across my inheritance and
end the struggle to become myself.