lavender:
By Lily Moody
Pink or blue
When our daughters are taught to hold their tongues and our sons are taught to hold their tears, when all we want to do is scream and sob.
Pink or blue
When dolls and toy trucks, bows and baseball gloves are used as barriers to separate us,
when femininity and masculinity are shamed from crossing paths.
Pink or blue
When the blood pumps the same through all bodies and these bones cage a fire so much brighter than they will ever begin to understand.
When he paints his lips dark red and finally feels beautiful, when she lets the hair on her body grow into a forest.
Lily Moody is a former yet-to-be-published writing student and an activist, located in Southern New Hampshire and hoping to make a difference through poetry and prose.
Photo credit: Homo Erectus via a Creative Commons license.