Here is a poem about genders – we are who we are inside our bodies. It is not for others to define our true selves.
Two Spirits
I know a
Man with breasts
A woman with a penis,
She fucks and he nurses.
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I know a woman
Who sleeps
With men
And women,
And finds love with both.
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I know men who
Now wear a woman's body
And women who wear a man's,
And they fight at
The front lines of our wars.
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My family has bred
Men who lay with men
Women who lay with women,
And we feast together
On holidays
And share the family ties
Of love and fun.
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I know the soft, bright art
Of the girl-man,
And the quiet competence
Of the male-woman.
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Oh, my, 2-spirit friends
And families
And strangers from afar,
I feel the two spirits within me
And they dance
And dance
A billion different steps.
©2022 Carl Scott Harker
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