They were happy to see us both
as we emerged from that-
literally and otherwise not-
warm, snug, blissful uterine bubbles
little did we know that,
unlike the world we already knew
being alike would soon bring troubles.
Little did we know…
that it would be the last time
they treated us both the same
once they saw what genitals we carried
those organs would change the whole game
of how they saw us, who we could become
how much we earned;
whoever we loved or married.
Little did we know…
we wouldn’t be fetuses no more
dealt alike with nature’s even odds
the courtroom had changed
to one filled with judges with minds chained
therefore can’t help but discriminate
unlike our blissful warm pods.
Now our souls would only matter
after those organs our bodies bear
became the substance not just the chatter.
Moms and Dads
simmered in the schools of thought of their own parents
mimicking the grands and the great grands
who placed acquired over inherent
placed us into cradles of gender
with names that fit and codes of color
to TELL and TEAR us apart
keeping us from our oneness splendor.
Meanwhile,
with many battles left to still fight
though some wars stand won,
the lamp of truth also stands alight.
and I SEE you
your crusade to recapture
the sensitivity you were made to deny
through a tranquilizer of ‘tough men’ culture
that sedated your emotions
I see you detoxify
reclaim tenderness as also your nature.
I know you SEE me too
as I unlearn and lean deeper
into the fierceness of my might
meet the grandeur of my grit
so someday, we may once again meet
under the law of fetal equality,
to timeless homogeny we resubmit.