My mind still speaks of there and this

Of hers and hims and thems and thens

Other minds and mines and times when rhymes

Could barely speak or breathe for us

And our hearts still ring of stars and too

The colors of blues, greens n’ hues

Purples paint old and new moons

Time that bled and dined us

We have a book that speaks of this dining

But mountains of letters to recite this entwining

Of fear, a murder reaped in declining

Of brethren and all who have loved us

They still will speak of all that is lost

Without a breath of the past's deep cost

Without an eye for how ancient the boss

An ear for those who have told us

Told us long and far and wide

And deep so deep my veins can’t hide

Can’t hide, can’t hide, no we can’t hide

How long this train has wrecked us

We must come out and reckon so

Seeds of pain for years we’ve sewed

Eons of death and wrath we’ve rowed

On each other, and thus have ended us

But my mind shall think of they and them

And her and it and she and hims

Spoken and not, tears they’ve brimmed

As they shout “you can never define us”

And my mind will wrap to sleep in warmth

For even as bloody history swarms

Across our memory, in droughts of scorn

My mind will call for loving us

And her breath still shows in winter’s tears

And their eyes still sparkle in summer’s fears

But their blood will thrive amongst wintry years

That in loving cold laughs reminded us

You and I will through shake and burn

And might through fires, and despite our yearn

From they and them and her will learn

This internal, they can never define us