#transphobia - Hello Poetry

Suicide's an expression until it happens to you Depression's an emotion till you see what it can do Sexism's just a joke until it hits you at full force And homophobia's merely a religious man who read the wrong source How long do we believe this until we change the way we think How long do we train the generations to judge before they blink Why do we laugh as another person falls Cackling as their world crumbles and filming as they bawl Why can't we smile then just walk away No, we complain to our friends the very next day Tooned into the gossip, well-crafting our lies As the victim behind you watches with teary eyes We make days meaningful to show that we care When a real issue emerges, genuine reactions are rare Read it on the media, a terrorism attack The world will just crumble and we can't ever fight back Because we've trained ourselves to hate, trained to lie Spotting out monsters with disgust in our eyes Searching for answers that explain our disgrace Because we know that we're wrong but won't fix our shape It's not a belief, it's just discrimination A plague that has spread throughout our nation It's a virus just so deadly, a poison old as time And we drank the bottle naively, corrupting our children's lives We say transphobia is God's will, no, that ******** is hate Say the world made you this way, no, it's your decision to make You read and feel empowered, you say that you'll change But if you truly believe that then you're just deranged A girl gets ***** and you call her a ***** Treating ****** assault as nothing more than a chore As children get beat, and the adults raise their voice We turn up the TV to block out the noise We judge based on color, by ethnicity, by age Like even after hundreds of years we can't seem to change Spew hate speech online, treat pain as a joke You'll never know the consequence till your begging and broke So move on with your problems like it's just another day Pass on your responsibility like there's no price to pay But don't you ever think, that this is your fault too? The minute you spot the truth, what will you do?

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Apr 13

Apr 13, 2026 at 10:26 PM UTC

Irelyn

Discrimination

Suicide's an expression until it happens to you Depression's an emotion till you see what it can do Sexism's just a joke until it hits you at full force And homophobia's merely a religious man who read the wrong source How long do we believe this until we change the way we think How long do we train the generations to judge before they blink Why do we laugh as another person falls Cackling as their world crumbles and filming as they bawl Why can't we smile then just walk away No, we complain to our friends the very next day Tooned into the gossip, well-crafting our lies As the victim behind you watches with teary eyes We make days meaningful to show that we care When a real issue emerges, genuine reactions are rare Read it on the media, a terrorism attack The world will just crumble and we can't ever fight back Because we've trained ourselves to hate, trained to lie Spotting out monsters with disgust in our eyes Searching for answers that explain our disgrace Because we know that we're wrong but won't fix our shape It's not a belief, it's just discrimination A plague that has spread throughout our nation It's a virus just so deadly, a poison old as time And we drank the bottle naively, corrupting our children's lives We say transphobia is God's will, no, that ******** is hate Say the world made you this way, no, it's your decision to make You read and feel empowered, you say that you'll change But if you truly believe that then you're just deranged A girl gets ***** and you call her a ***** Treating ****** assault as nothing more than a chore As children get beat, and the adults raise their voice We turn up the TV to block out the noise We judge based on color, by ethnicity, by age Like even after hundreds of years we can't seem to change Spew hate speech online, treat pain as a joke You'll never know the consequence till your begging and broke So move on with your problems like it's just another day Pass on your responsibility like there's no price to pay But don't you ever think, that this is your fault too? The minute you spot the truth, what will you do?