For Mother

Oh mother, I’m a lone dog
Walking myself by the reservoir
Loyal in starvation
Ignoble in reason
Driven towards discomfort
Where sleep is for dreamers
Watching my hairy skin
Age before my eyes.

Are you Mother?
I had asked to a woman of no dissimilar
Stature
Height
And appearance.
Yes she called
And she took me away
Where I became another son
Another girl’s boy?

O mother
You have made this lone dog a girlboy unique.
How many more sleepless nights?
How many girlboys with pale lined faces will traipse
With me
Towards school today?
Consigned to lol and omg I’ll brb.
When I’m ready, when the time is right,
I’ll sleep again, I promise but the night is long yet
Mother, for a dog girlboy,
And I’ve got all these years to go.