GENDER
They assume what they cannot see,
for all they see is the structure of your body,
the muscles,
The fat,
in places you dare not view.
The length of your hair,
The places it grows,
To shave or not,
Determine your fitness to be a gender.
The shape of your face,
Your hands,
Your legs,
Choose your pronouns for you
Pronouns in which there are only two options.
The clothes that sit upon your skin
Define you to them.
Skirts for one
Pants the other.
The dresses, the suits,
They can't cross over.
It's all how you look.
How you look is how they see
And they see what you cannot.
The binaries, the areas, the code,
The box.
The box they dare not break.
But you do.
And yet they cannot see
Or do, but refuse
Refuse to acknowledge that there is more outside their box.
They assume what they cannot see,
Unknowing that you grew up thinking you were a boy,
Not a girl.
That you preferred trucks,
To dolls,
And blue,
To pink.