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Wanting To Be Understood


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Wanting To Be Understood

By Sally Michelle Jackson

I have a very unique condition that causes isolation

A member of the unrecognized minority in this nation

How much better to have been born a different way

The fact remains that we must be recognized one day

For that is the true nature of a democracy

Not a totally money driven bureaucracy

Why must each minority be listed by name

Shouldn’t all humans be treated the same

We live in a country that proclaims to be free

And yet the hardest thing is to be free to be me

We fought a war just to escape from taxation without representation

We pay our taxes but who represents us in the capital of our nation

For some strange reason we are the objects of fear

And people start to whisper whenever we are near

The whispering is something that I can take

The next step is becoming the object of hate

With no laws on the books listing us by name

We are unprotected and that is such a shame

Leaving us to be ourselves at home all alone

For that is the only way to be us on our own

I don’t claim to know why or how but I just know that it is

Why people can understand virtually everything but this

Tell them you have an incurable disease

And work hard to make your pain ease

But mention Gender Identity and try to explain

Your image in their eyes got a permanent stain

I have never been one to just sit, moan and complain

Or to run out and really fight for a cause, I just refrain

But now as I have entered into the twilight of my years

I look back at all of the things I just let happen in tears

Why didn’t I help I could have sped things along

If we all pull together maybe it won’t take so long

I have sat on the sidelines and missed most of the game

I am going in now and the world will never be the same

I don’t care if anyone ever knows my name

Just that the work that I have done will remain

As the final chapters of my life unfold

I am changed and I no longer feel old

My life had a purpose even though I waited until the Fall

I realize I have lived a full life the last wasn’t wasted at all

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Guest Donna Jean

Bitter/sweet, Sally.....

It sure hits the mark as to how I feel...

Move over, Honey....I'll ruminate with you....OK?

Love

Donna Jean

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Guest Evan_J

Ok, that one brought tears to my eyes. But not because it was sad.

But now as I have entered into the twilight of my years

I look back at all of the things I just let happen in tears

Why didn’t I help I could have sped things along

If we all pull together maybe it won’t take so long

I have sat on the sidelines and missed most of the game

I am going in now and the world will never be the same

I don’t care if anyone ever knows my name

Just that the work that I have done will remain

As the final chapters of my life unfold

I am changed and I no longer feel old

My life had a purpose even though I waited until the Fall

I realize I have lived a full life the last wasn’t wasted at all

...Because you've realized what we all should.

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