​I love you for all that you will become

He never wanted a daughter and she yearned to be his son

His handsome features became soft on her

It ailed him to see his precious boy blossom into herself

But what about her?

The disgust that came from what she would never be

Perhaps had she been his second born he could have forgiven her

Perhaps if I hadn’t been born I would never wonder

If I could ever love her

If he could ever love me

But we’ll both continue this farce

I’ll learn to love the woman in the mirror

In time thoughts of what he could have become will disappear

Momentarily bound by skin, eternally by blood

To my daughter who was once my son,

I love you for all that you will become

To my father who was the strongest of them all,

I love you and apologize for what I am