The Transgender Clan

The Transgender Clan

Memories besieged
Spirits so sad
We are the bereaved
The transgendered clan

Born into exile
What is our crime?
Our passion is beauty
The sentence of time

Hatred and fear
Gifts to us all
Given in anger
By the heart of the small

Desolate silence
Laughter unheard
Taught to the world
Misunderstood word

Whole then made half
As halves become whole
Misrepresentation
Of spirit and soul

Left to the abyss
Lost and alone
Cause to resist
Our true selves shone

Lie to ourselves
Or lie to the world
In body entombed
In spirit we’re girls

As we unit
We find our lost hope
Our spirits find peace
As we learn to cope