Poem: I hide my rage!

I HIDE MY RAGE! 

As an Activist, I am on the front lines of a war.

I won’t walk away, or escape through that door.

It is in front of me day

in and day

out

and I do it

without pay.

*

I see the pain, I talk to the people who are hurting daily.

I grieve those who have died or who were murdered.

I grieve for the babies whose genitals are surgically messed up.

I try to comfort the mother or father who was lied to…

and with tears in their eyes

 they hold their baby who was violated

*

As an Activist, I am on the front lines of a war.

I sometimes wonder if I can take any more.

It is in front of me day in and day out.

I see how this world messed up bad by not educating you about us.

*

Those of power and influence

trying to erase a part of humanity.

A few of us won’t be silent no more.

So as a marginalized person

I have to disregard my rage, my sadness, and my overwhelming pain……..

and educate you.

Because if I don’t

 you will not listen.

*

Now that is the

epitome of entitlement.

BUT

I will try to do it calmly

for the intersex and transgender babies born

into a

world that wants to erase them too.

 

By Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

April, 18th, 2016 

The above picture is to: Poem: I Promise to Be Your Voice: My New Year Resolution for 2016

STOP IGM!  = Intersex Genital Mutilation 

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