He is happy, and he is sad,
his joy is equal to his pain.
He is white, and he is black,
yellow, brown, and deeply red.
His soul is dressed in a body unclad
whether in sunshine or in rain.
He is male now, but female some lives back,
he is living now, and never was he dead.
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler.