Gender

I am different from the rest of this world

There is simply no avoiding it

From what to who I am

I defy most defaults

I say "most" only because my skin is pale

And the skin of my family is pale

But I am not ordinary regardless

I am not a boy

Nor am I a girl

And whichever you may be makes no real difference

In how I will see you

My world is less devoid of gender

And more unaffected by it

For gender is a fickle little thing

And whatever is the use in letting your world be determined

By something so small, yet so big

By something so universal, yet so personal

I never really understood that