Boy I knew...

Girl I loved...

Man I worshiped...

Satin gloves...

Goddess & brother...

One to another...

Father & Mother.

He was all I desired

but he was never real...

She was born male

& she could never heal

what the toxin of birth

had made of her soul...

He was a dream gone

out of control...

He was her nightmare

though he was my prince...

I know she was right

because she has convinced me

that no other option was worth

all this living -

I see her smile & I stand forgiving

for all that he was is now there

in her smiles...

The images mesh with all that he was...

Because he was all

the world's denials

made flesh.