Stealth Mode

My unease, with being called, a leader, when I am still struggling with other concerns, like my health.

I get nervous

When people start

Describing me

A leader.

As I document

My life and experiences

In free verse poetry.

When I know

There many other people

Who risk their lives

On a daily basis.

In challenging society

One person

At a time.

Making a real difference

Most don't see

But I do

In people's attitudes

Towards others

Like myself.

Am

Just the crowbar

Applied to the crack

They have created

To widen

It's growth.

By giving

A human face

To the struggles

Of the transcommunity.

For many of us

We prefer

To live our lives

Without having

A spotlight

On us.

Slipping

Into the background

Unnoticed and unmolested

By the hateful bigots

Of the world.

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Author's Note

Going stealth, is a term that the transcommunity uses, when someone goes underground, when they describe their past. By cutting off, all contacts with the community, as they live their life, in their chosen gender. Denying future generation, a valuable leadership and guidance, when they come out of the closet and disclose, their true identity.

I understand, why this happens, having lived a life, filled with transphobic and homophobic abuse and violence, by society, at large. But, I disagree with their logic, feeling it's selfish and harmful, to the community, at large.