Why Do I Disturb You?

Trying to understand homophobia and transphobia.

Why do I

Make you feel

Hatred and anger

Towards me?

Having never met

Face to face

Or even talked

To each other.

Yet

These feeling

Persist for you

Irrationally.

Do I challenge

Your lily-white vision

Of gender

And sexuality?

Spoonfed to you

From your mother's milk

As a child growing up

Wherever you live.

If you expected

A violent

Or angry reaction

From me.

Think again

For it will be

A very frosty day

In Hell

Before that happens.

Rather

I pity you

Unable to grow

And share your love

With others.

Reviews

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~ i experience this anguish... i wouldn't use the word "pity" though... it's a sadness... at the failure of the education system all over the world... it's just so heartbreaking to bump into a prejudice of this nature... i iterate and reiterate my stand and then leave the scene...

[therisa]

Thank you, Serah, for reading and reviewing this poem. Sadly, many of these encounters are, of the drive-by slur, tossed out as they pass.

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~ i hear you... and you're very welcome...