Epicene

our consciousness belittles us. Vapid ideals and stagnant ideas have tethered
identity to chromosomes
We disparage when we should empower, we are bound by inherent traits, yes!
We assume roles of instinct, yes!
But flesh and mind are malleable, formed of nurture and of nature,
but disillusioned with traitorous actions
our bodies drawn and quartered by our own fair hands.
when we separate gender, we cut off every nose to spite every face.
We sanctify a society that regards
anatomy above ability. Flesh is the most intimate the most personal,
liked or loathed it is yours and only yours.
Those who violate it are a product of a society that sanctions and supports
constraints around genitalia, fashioned
upon abhorrent creed, not common sense and empathy.
We are our own masters, of teeth and skin and hair and bone and we are greater
than the sum of our parts.