If tonight be our last and the skies fall and the universe splits in two
i would like to go with the imprint of your head leaning on my shoulder
the sound of your laugh filling my eardrums and blocking the impact
the shatter of everything falling as you sigh and make some remark that they really picked their timing, you just mopped the floor-
that would be the blueprint, my dear sweet friend, for the rest of our short short lives
and I would like that.
it never changes here, does it
these old piles just gather dust
those new podcasts reaffirm those old beliefs
unthinking cruelty voiced on purpose
you know I'm no fool yet you fall for it all
it never changes here, does it
the irony is almost laughable
you think that didn't happen to me too
you think you're infallible
you pretend you don't for validation
you think you're no fool, yet you fall for it all
it never changes here, does it
I always regret coming back
go home and feel bad calling there home
it wasn't that bad, I'm exaggerating
pretend its okay to try and escape
I know I'm a fool, and forget every time.
sometimes I think about how I used to hate the trans flag
it's an odd one, that hate. at the time it was mainly because I wanted to pass, be seen as cis, and not have anyone ask anything
I swore to myself college would be different, and that there noone would know I was trans.
thank fuck I didn't. thank hell I went to that pride event, met this and that person, was honest about what was going on, mentioned binding to this person, laughed about queer complexity with friends I would never have met otherwise, was open about my identity at every goddamn hands turn.
if you see this and you hate the flag, I get it. I really really do. I hope someday you love it too. It's gaudy and different and beautiful and hopeful.
also, we are everywhere. we are everywhere and people know about us and support us. the most unlikely places and most unassuming people will turn around and say they know someone who is trans too
this world is so geared against us. I know I am lucky. but if you know that you can, it's beautiful and mortifying and terrible and freeing to be seen and loved.
FUCKING GETCH OU
hand over hand
in the firmest handshake
"I hereby declare these two kingdoms unified once more"
hand on hand
in the finest linin
we consecrate a marriage
the only one we could ever have had
the maids know to keep their mouths shut
the mattress will never know their lesson
hand in hand
I whisper an "I love you", so softly that the wind could never snatch it away
although I wish I could shout it from the rooftops
and yet
you hear
and whisper one back
so low it could never reach the church's high steeple
and be proclaimed at the masses to the masses
and yet
I hear.
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I absolutely love talking about transmasculinity it's genuinely so freeing and cathartic to be able to talk about my experiences and community. I love you, transmasculinity <3
It’s been so long since i said it but if you live with homophobic/transphobic parents no matter if you’re a minor or a young adult don’t come out <3
i am everyone's lover these ragged tatters dancing lightly from poem to poem witnessing scars like ivy curling over cool stone hallways with thick dark doors i am everyone's lover this brittle cage ajar conjuring your essences to feast on your beauty the misunderstood a delicacy your loneliness is my pain i am everyone's lover open mouths and call to me let me in your skins, that i may decorate your souls and dwell in your warmth a shadow seeking light in your darkness
as I sit deadly still
I hear the voices in the hall get louder
and louder as they go down it
until suddenly there's a shouting match in the kitchen
I could go, could try to stop the verbal carnage of the usual saturday squabble
be present for the slamming door and shattering glass
but I stay here, silent
funky lil man, he/him, i go by jaye! I write poems sometimes ❤️
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