Epicene - Momentum

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.