Today is Lesbian Visibility Day so this is my poem Grace & Hope in honour of the day. Hope you all like it. 🙂
When they were 3
they used to play with Barbies
and occasionally a Cindy,
sitting for hours talking
and making up weddings
for their dolls.
By high school Grace
had turned all emo
while Hope joined
the debating team
and became the school nerd.
At 21 Grace wondered
why she was attracted to her
best friend.
After all Grace liked girls,
always had
but to the world Hope was
a guy called Ryan
but she never felt like a guy
to Grace
so it was all very odd.
In any case love was love
and all that jazz
and by 22 they were officially
an item
but Hope was moody
a lot of time
and Grace wished she would
let her in.
At 24, Hope admitted to Grace
that she was trans,
no big deal to anyone
except Daisy Johnson
who insisted they weren’t
‘a real lesbian couple’
like herself and Joan
but no one listened to her anyway.
At 30, they got engaged,
a mutual agreement over breakfast
in their new flat,
might be many years before
they would marry,
recreate their dolls’ weddings,
many years before they saved
for the rings
but the deal was made
and life was good.