Love is Love

Love is Love is based on the first appointment Zoey attended for the gender clinic referral. I hope you enjoy it…

 

LOVE IS LOVE

The drive there is littered with anxious turns,

your eyes burn, lips cracked with worry.

I hold your hand as we walk in,

‘This is where it all begins’, I whisper.

This is where YOU begin.

We sign you in, sit and wait,

your fate in the hands of a stranger.

Small talk soothes tapping toes,

secretly we hope they’ll help your plight.

You’re mid-flight, waiting to land,

will they stand with you?

We shuffle in our seats,

cold plastic chairs don’t seem to care –

but will she?

Your name is called,

I take your hand as you stand –

I’ll catch you if you fall.

We walk together (always together),

and it feels like forever…

We walk down long corridors,

Into the silence of a white room.

Is it too soon to scream, ‘BE KIND!’

But I find,

I sit, I listen, I wait.

No need to search for hate,

because she smiles.

She calls you by your name,

no shame.

Ticking boxes,

each strike, each nod of the head,

instead of fear, it’s warmth we feel.

The comforting questions,

my chance to tell her how I love you so,

But she already knows.

She already knows…

She sees you,

rising from the ashes of your old life,

She sees us, wife and wife.

She sees, above all else, the most important thing-

she sees love.