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  • podiumdavis
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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Some May Ask - 1. Some May Ask

Some may ask why my heart bleeds.

Deep beneath this external facade lays a boy that feels lost.

He's conflicted and filled with self-hatred.

He just wishes he could be sedated.

To forget all this pain.

 

Lost in his despair, he feels that this life was never fair.

His gender, his identity, did not conform to who he was.

The parts that caused him pain he wanted to cut off, just so he could somehow belong.

But the labels, the names, set all in this game of put downs.

 

Life isn't fair, he had lost his will to care.

Like a marry-go-round he was caught by the forces that be.

Living life going from tree to tree, flower to flower, like some little honey bee.

 

Most forget that the thing between your legs dosen’t make who you are.

It’s unfair.

It’s almost like a health scare knowing that you’ll never be whom you know you should be.

 

The world likes to place the blame, call you out as weird and a freak every day of the week.

As if this identity has somehow made you weak.

But I don’t care. I am what I am.

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Lisa

This was so sad, podium.

 

It breaks my heart that kids, people, have to go through this pain b/c they were born into the wrong body. I read a few years ago that in the near future parents will be able to pick their baby's gender. I have no idea if this has happened yet or not, but I was just thinking if it is possible for parents to choose if they want a boy or a girl, that might somehow be a factor in gender identity and maybe the likelihood of kids feeling that they were born in the wrong bodies will increase. Idk...just a thought.

 

And of course it's also sad that they get bullied and/or made fun of just b/c others don't understand anything about it. Or they fear it. People are afraid of what they don't understand, which of course is no excuse to bully others who are different from them.

 

Anyway, didn't mean to ramble on, podium. It was a great poem. =)

podiumdavis
On 08/31/2014 04:23 PM, Lisa said:
This was so sad, podium.

 

It breaks my heart that kids, people, have to go through this pain b/c they were born into the wrong body. I read a few years ago that in the near future parents will be able to pick their baby's gender. I have no idea if this has happened yet or not, but I was just thinking if it is possible for parents to choose if they want a boy or a girl, that might somehow be a factor in gender identity and maybe the likelihood of kids feeling that they were born in the wrong bodies will increase. Idk...just a thought.

 

And of course it's also sad that they get bullied and/or made fun of just b/c others don't understand anything about it. Or they fear it. People are afraid of what they don't understand, which of course is no excuse to bully others who are different from them.

 

Anyway, didn't mean to ramble on, podium. It was a great poem. =)

I tried.. That's all the matters I think. I was just so deeply touched by a video that I felt compelled.. :) But I agree that an issue will arise if we could somehow choose the gender...:|
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