Elucidating Questions

I used to think lying was evil

And then I counted every little like I tell everyday

I’m fine

I’m good

Oh, you know, just living!

All lies.

All things I tell people to placate them

Even thinking all that I still thought that must mean I was evil

Every time someone misgenders me and I don’t correct them and I am safe pretending to be a woman for a moment

But then I thought, I am forced into these lies

People don’t ask how you are expecting any answer

And exactly how many people can I tell my pronouns to before someone takes offense to my existence?

This society that forces us to lie to survive

Forces us to deny ourselves over and over again

Humans had infinite possibilities and they chose this one and choose to continue despite life sucking because life’s “supposed to suck”

We were not born to suffer

We were born to make a paradise

Instead we have this

And all these little lies society forces us to tell

While simultaneously being told our lies are evil.