Congressional Women in White

Before conception and gender,        
there were cosmic forces          
present and unproblematic          
to our initiation and reception.        
         
I currently relate as a female          
but, on the scale of lifetimes          
and solitary soul journey          
of accumulated experience          
I understand gender as a changeling.        
       
Sometimes, we are created      
balanced in both:      
one sculpted on the outside      
the other from the solar plexus.          
         
We are yin and yang despite sex;        
a recycled collective          
of revolving deities who are        
part of a wholly complete organism.          
         
There is no doubt within myself          
that despite the gender reading this poem,          
this picture is me—        
and also you.          
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