Take it down a notch
Your life began a few months ago
When everything you thought of ‘them’
Was turned upside down
By ‘him.’
Acutely aware of the tension
He still stepped into the fray
What would be his cost?
Maybe she’d run away.
Cussing his kind to the ends
What was her cost?
An unimaginable list
Of everything she has lost.
He made me breathe again
To see the other side
A better view of his gender
Without the terrifying ride.
Now I cannot cuss them
Without also including him
A person that has done nothing
But give me my every whim.
Now I don’t have to worry
I can simply sit here and breathe.
He made it so easy
He simply made me believe.
Don’t tell him I said this
But I don’t think about the past
He is my ‘right now’
And honestly, my last.
The only rock I’ve ever had
The one that never got away
And I believe him every time
He says he is going to stay.
Josephine Ranes 
Amazing, as always