The romantic’s words
of accepted social
behavior, ring in my head
An open heart is the
natural state of man?
A land as tolerant
where Ahalya was forgiven
refuses to see
the teeming truth of
gender fluidity,
that you could identify
with one gender and
express yourself as
another, is only
hushed about.
Where Shabri’s ber
found acceptance
Yet she still whispers,
I’ve heard through
the grapevine
that you’ve been…