Category : Poems

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A phobia is an irrational fear, 

It is not an excuse, 

To discriminate towards those, 

Who differentiate from your preferences. 

We deserve wedding cakes, 

Just as much as anyone else, 

Because you cannot help how you look, 

Or who you love.

To feel like you do not belong, 

In your own body,

To be ostracized from a society, 

That preaches to ‘be yourself’. 

Censoring behaviors, 

Terrified of being called out, 

For being too masculine or feminine. 

We are not sinners, 

For falling subject to love, 

He said to love thy neighbor, 

And you may throw the first stone, 

If you have never sinned yourself, 

And we are all products of sin, 

And didn’t Jesus have two fathers? 

They fear us because we are different,

We fear them because they are all the same. 

Love is not criminal, 

Love is patient, love is kind, 

Love is not meant to be confined. 

Some of us cannot help, 

If their parents chose their gender for them, 

Or if we do not want to have sex at all, 

We are not bad parents because we will not force, 

Our children into a lifestyle they do not want. 

They think we are the problem,  

 Because we defy procreation, 

But the procreators are the ones, 

Who keep giving birth to us. 

We are not confused, 

We are not degenerates, 

We are stronger than the cruel,

For tolerating ridicule. 

We are colorful, 

We are divine, 

Love will not make us lose our minds. 

–Catherine Keller

http://www.whlreview.com/no-11.1/poetry/CatherineKeller.pdf