The Teacup’s Arrival, By Brian37 (Now Jackie Leigh) (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on Twitter).

I wanted a tea of heather and lilac
I swam in a sea of swells and shark
I wanted to be an a side track
I slept in a closet pitch dark black

I wanted a sailboat I could tack
I got jellyfish stings all over my back
I wanted the locks of Farrah’s hair
I spoke not of that, I did not dare

I wanted to dress in pretty things
Pantyhose, pumps and pearl strings
I wanted a morning to wake up so
To be that girl I always did know

I wanted a tea of honey and milk
I dreamed of nightgowns made of silk
I wanted my flat chest to grow and grow
Way back then I couldn’t have known

That the time would come
Closing in near
I no longer hide
Or live in fear

And hopefully by
The end of the year
My body will be whole
That’d I’d yearned for years.
(end)

This poem isn’t specifically about me, and is metaphor more than anything. But it does describe the longing to have your body be whole as the gender you always knew you were, while suppressing it while it still haunted you, and facing stigma and fear of coming out as transgender. But it is about me in the desire to live as a female, that has always been inside me.