Just Excuses

If

We live

In a post-modern society

Where gender equity

Is suppose to be

A fact.

Why

Do I

Still face hostility

Regarding my own

Gender identity

As a woman?

Where

Some people view

Others like myself

As pariahs for

Being gender traitor

Never to be fully trusted

In our correct gender.

Corrupter

Of society's mores

In providing

A path for damnation

For innocent children.

When

In reality

All we seek is

Inner peace

Between our souls

And our bodies.

Sigh.

Am

So tired

Of being told

I am transitioning

For sex and power.

Still

Scratching my head

Over that claim.

How

Do I gain sex

Or power over them

When they reviled

Me?

Can

Only shake

My head.

When

Survival demands

Things from us

Which otherwise is

Repulsive.

Author's Note

Originally written August 26, 2012.

Reviews

[spiritwind]

I think poetry would be an excellent format for your journal of experiences in your life. People undergoing a lot of different upheavals---cancer, loss of childrem, loss of marriage, abuse of many different kinds-- use poetry to put their pain outside their hearts and look at it and perhaps understand themselves better and allow others to understand better at the same time. Speak on

[therisa]

Thank you, Spiritwind, for your very kind and generous words. Indeed, this is how I use my writing to heal myself.