Bengaluru Pride March 2017 (Picture by Haris Manian)

Creative Writing

Poem: The Darkness Behind Me

By Dee

June 04, 2019

How special to know your identityTo wear it with impunityAnd walk tall among societyConfident of your gender singularity.

But there is living inside of meMore than the average dualityRather a spectrum of she and he,And the places between this binary.

Though I present with masculinity,And the body carries a certain femininityThe mind lacks this polarityAnd sees gender as a fluid continuity.

We have a picture in societyOf gender as a simple binaryNot to mention the ignoramyOf heteronormativity.

But a rainbow lives inside of me,A fluidity unable to be freeBecause some walk tall in societyConfident we must all have gender singularity.

You’re the darkness behind meThe shroud of demanded conformityAn exhausting solidarityThat says I must bottle my fluidity.

Can you open your mind to gender pluralityAnd the beautiful spectrum of sexuality?Because you can still walk tall, in singularity,While accepting gender and sexual multiplicity.