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BUT...THE CHILD SAID.    Benji Julien

But the child said

Early with birds and breakfast so simple and sweet a child was dispatched on to the planet we call Earth, tears because the child had been selected, who would they be will they smile will they show the world when he arrives...oh my a bright light it's a girl...puzzled the child cries the man who pull him out got it wrong, the man replies to who would call mom and say her lungs sound great, she is doing great...but the child cries louder in sadness because why did he say girl when he is a boy The one called mother leaves the crying upset child because she doesn't understand why she is so upset. The puzzled child goes and grows up wondering why does everyone keeps saying she, and he know he was a boy so his grandmother replies on day they will all see him just be patient but as the child gets older his grandmother gets older and leaves him alone but tells him better she parts to remember who he is and never let anyone tell him different, but to no end nobody saw the boy so child said I'm a boy the world lol you are too pretty and shapely to be a boy go and bear children silly girl confused the child said I am not girl firmly I cannot bear child, violating and emptying the poor boy of every ounce of himself, he bears children but the children say dad,Why they say I’m a girl when i am a boy the child said. Sobbing with tears in his did dad looks at him in disbelief and disgust like why would SHE ask that in true you ARE. the child then said i know in my heart you I AM and I WILL let the world see my fully and authentically.Filled with blood scars and absolutely nothing , he still stands and says proud I am boy, his peers laugh and say just be girl you are not strong enough, his peers say be a girl because your voice is too soft, without any fear he no longers cries Instead he firmly stands up and replies but I am not a girl nor boy I AM A MAN !

Benji Julien