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god gave us transness

God gave us day and night, but that doesn’t erase dawn and dusk

God gave us the ocean, filled with beasts and monsters and the division of land and water. This doesn’t erase the coral reefs and beaches that crawl between the edge of each.

God gave us man and man gave us woman, who is to say there isn't more that man can give us?

God gave us the fruits and beasts of the land, and we create exorbitant feasts and frivolous parties.

God gave us rain to quench our thirst and to feed our crops.

Yet these clouds cover the sun, does that mean God renounces the light?

The mere absence of one does mitigate its existence, as is the existence of the other doesn’t fault the one.

I’ve existed as a woman, living for years under another name and sharing the experiences of women.

There was no mistake.

God made me in their visage, a visage of abundant change and never-ending curiosity.

I swam to the other side, crossing the line between land and sea, embracing dusk and dawn, to see what else man had for me.

I tended to myself, as we have done to our crops.

God gave us seeds and rain to grow our feasts.

God gave me testosterone and needles to stroke the fire in my heart.

I studied every change, as my voice became scratchy and dropped, those first pangs of pain were a sign of a rising sun.

The world gave me a new name, from the plethora of written works and history that man has yielded.

I forged my own path until I lifted the quite literal weight off my chest.

There is more to God’s creations than just two things- the dew filled dawns, agate filled beaches, sweet rainbows in the sky.

I have never believed in a god.

But one that has created so many things, must have wanted us to create too

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