Estranged. 22 Feb 2024

Estranged.

it’s such a funny word to me

To be rendered strange

unusual, different, lost

as if normalcy was ever an option

much less an option back then

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This estrangement, though

doesn’t feel like I’ve been made other

it is just a loss, or a wound

and rather than disembodied and distant

my feelings are sadness and confusion

and above all, a rage

fueled by a not burning

but still red-hot coal

buried in my insides

Published by zoe_michelle

Trans woman living in the PNW. Aerialist. Writer, sometimes. Computer programming shit, more often than she would like. Academic apostate.

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