Six short lines carry a quiet, aching wish. The speaker wonders what it would be like to be "born right," and the poem slowly makes clear what that means: to be born a man, a "he." The title, Elijah, suggests the speaker may be a trans man, though the poem never says so outright, so that reading is an inference.
The feeling here is longing, mixed with a little sadness. "Sometimes" tells us this thought comes and goes, a private daydream rather than a constant ache. The phrase "born right" is striking because it hints that the speaker feels they were born wrong, or at least that their body and the world don't match who they are. Yet the poem ends on the word "me," repeated twice, as if the speaker is testing out the idea of a self that feels whole.
The short lines and soft pauses make the mood hushed and tentative, like someone saying something aloud for the first time, carefully, to see how it sounds.