Living in Binary | an original poem about gender & gender roles
Channel: Kat's Katastrophe
Date: 03/01/2021

-- CONTENT WARNING: gun mention in the poem --

It is 2021 and yet we are still experiencing this, or at least from my perspective. It is very much tiring to see people continuously getting invalidated just because their hobbies and their interests tend to be different from the "usual." 

Poem:
I grew up in a world of binaries
wherein having a pair is the ordinary
mom always say to find something contrary
where scanning my match felt like a rare book in a library 

I was always told to see the world in two's
one is for me and one is for you
the girl is in pink while the boy should be blue 
but I somehow feel misconstrued 

she said girls like to paint nails, dye hair, and play princesses
and boys do not cry, they get cars and skip consequences
women should learn how to cook, clean, and obey behest
while the husband is busy working on his manliness 

I've come to question binaries 
of the zeros and ones of society
so much so for being rude to question such authority
but what else can I do when can't fit myself completely? 

a rebel on the run, running for the sun
as I combine two separate entities into one
and while I try to be myself, someone is pointing a gun
because mixing two colors, races, roles, and dresses is not something fun 

turns out that paths aren't always two.
a question can be answered by yes, no, and even maybe too.
what once was icky and often screwed
can still be something good and new. 

I grew up in a world as told by the white males in society
where we move by pairs to exhibit orderliness and simplicity
but once you get to see the colors and nature's complexity
maybe it's not right to completely box somebody.

Background Music:
What True Self, Feels Bogus, Let's Watch Jason X by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/reappear/
Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/