When I was a kid my dad told me that
If you swing all the way around the swingset
Your gender changes.
I didn’t understand why but I tried for hours.
When I got top surgery
They cut off a lifetime of heaviness.
I woke up craving apple juice.
My friend played a podcast about bugs
As they drove me home.
The trees don’t know what gender I am
And neither does my dog.
Someone once told me
That gravity is proof the earth wants you here
And I chose to believe them.
Thank god.
Today kids are swinging all the way around the swingset
In ways I never could have imagined.
I am basking in their light.
I laugh with my friends and for a few minutes we are free.
Our lives are so beautiful and intricate that
We threaten everything rigid and evil.
Sometimes we talk about how we were once kids on swing sets
Choosing between gravity and fear but now
Our bodies are our own and we have chosen to leap.
