I hear you.
A young mother
Threatening
Her three
Her three
Or four years old
Son.
Promising him
A reason to cry
If he doesn't stop.
Bringing back
40 year old memories
Of my own experiences
As child.
How boys are
To publically express
To publically express
Their emotions.
In being
The strong silent type
When expressing
Sorrow or sadness.
To do otherwise
You're labelled
As a sissy.
Or worse
By society.
Bottling up
The grief.
Leaving it
To eat away
At you.
Knowing
Had you been born
As female
The rules are
Different.
Therisa © 2017
Author's note: After six months of starting estrogen, as part of my HRT, I was asked, what the biggest change, which I have noticed, so far. To which, I answered, being freer, in expressing my emotional self, without the fear of physical or verbal attacks, for doing so.
