Requiem 2118: In Remembrance of Gender
We once hurled binary at ourselves so hard it adhered
Lashed he/she to our souls and to each other
Based strictly on our parts
Even as the relevance slipped away
We taught that male and female were separate
Hearth keeper or hunter— you were what your parts dictated
When someone claimed both (or neither) we grew afraid
And tried to smother them beneath stereotypes
Now binary has unfurled into a spectrum
We’ve decoded, evolved beyond our birth parts
And spread our wings atop our old labels
Killing limitation with our beautifully-balanced flight