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Orchid T Aspen
Poems
Dec 2019
The silica mirror's edge
They stand
like I almost did,
look like I almost do,
and speak like I almost have.
'=================='
But they walk from me,
leaving me ugly and bared by my ill name,
without any purchase in the words I have left,
'============================='
and they return to those
who waited for them
to just come back.
'==========='
They become
hurting and healing
in one fluid stroke,
forgetting about
the edge they have always
walked along.
'========'
They are ready to stand next to them
instead of me,
in my stead,
by my heart,
'======='
so I turn back to the mirror
and refuse to let
someone who
doesn't want
to be real again
walk away from me.
#self
#discovery
#identity
#family
#struggle
#dissociation
#gender
#separation
#dysphoria
#body
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Orchid T Aspen
22/Bigender/Southeastern US
(22/Bigender/Southeastern US)
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