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Monday, June 17, 2013

J'NAII OR BLUE

              The ideas of male and female are universal constants. Captain Kirk


J’naii or Blue

I want to feel soft inside
the body I live in, pink.
I want to know I have peace
and fluidity
where I am fragile,
forgiveness not blame,
whole not a shell in
my house of conformity.

It’s like you're not even real,
an alien, a machine, a man, a woman—
a person.
People stare at you, and
they don't even realize
they're staring at your exterior--
their mindless judgment excludes.
They don’t care about your
gender assigned at birth, only
assumed recognition assigned
at a passing look.
But you take it all in, the
projected energy undermining
your  given out-caste temple.
You take the whole universe in,
along with
the ricketiest of its conformed members.

Yes, she still encounters
the whispers and stares,
as normal as a passing blue moon--
people just look and smile at
a human that was once a him.
TJKG 
dverse  poetry

7 comments:

  1. Father sky, mother earth... gender is everywhere... we are taught to think in gender norms. I enjoyed your poem, and you bring up a difficult subject that needs to be talked about...

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  2. interesting...what people see versus who they know...its easy to see the outside...much messier to look within....and a controversial topic, but you handle it well...just open the conversation and let it go from there...

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  3. Tracy, i agree, you handle this subject with gentleness, and it deserves just that. We should never judge others for their exterior, because we do not know how they feel.

    Pamela

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  4. We as humans need to see what is beneath the exterior..as there is beauty within..as that is where the soul resides.

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  5. A sensitive topic to write about ~ Indeed no one knows what we are really like inside, aside from the gender assigned at birth ~

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  6. A good conversation here and important. Some don't choose to look further than what they see with the eye.

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  7. that was really cool...we tend to look just with our eyes but as the little prince said we only see good with our heart... and we def. need the conversation

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