by ALEXANDER OPICHO
I am worried
I am bi-curiously worried
the landlord will lock
my house tomorrow
with a huge padlock
I will be punished for what I am,
Again, I am worried of beards
on my face that hosts loud voice
from depth of my windpipe
vocally backwards to assigned
the station I earned from those
defining what to hate and to love
I am more worried of tomorrow
I will lose my job for what I did
not chose to be, just a piece of cog
in the wheel of nature’s diversity
channeled to love within my tunnel
untethered to the convention of narrow,
but still wildly neurotic in hatred,
I am worried of self-hatred tomorrow
For bound to be a pet of the empty
and yawning jaws of hungry stomach
poverty harvested from transphobia,
only fibres that bricks up culture’s wall
therein housed sun’s death of my kin,
I am worried of my daughter
May be come tomorrow she will be
deschooled for her bisexual promise
getting culled to lead the binary reign
by those who salute not nature for her
unbounded power in the infinite gifts,
I am worried…