#100PoemsForKids 33: A Cat Is A Cat Is A Cat

This is a poem about trans kids and cats and chaos, as requested by someone CALLED Cat, on behalf of their trans kid.

Consider the cat.
The cat doesn’t care what you think.
It just gets on with being a cat
And if that’s going to kick up a stink
Then the cat doesn’t care
It’s a cat. It’s just there.

Where a dog is more eager to please,
A cat is a cat is a cat
And your comfort and ease
With all that is irrelevant.
A cat is exactly what it wants to be
If you like it, then great!
But if you choose to hate
Then the cat’s still a cat still a cat.

What are you going to do about that?

Consider the trans kid.
He she or they
Is exactly the person they say they are
You can deny it
Repress them? Just try it:
They’ll find their own way
To be them
You might seeek to impose
Your own rules
And yet everyone knows
That you can’t impose order on chaos:
It’s your own inhibition that shows.

And a cat is a cat is a cat
You can cry all you want about that.
And a kid who is trans is a kid
Who is trans. It’s not something you did:
You’re irrelevant.
They’re in their element.
They will keep being
Who they will keep being
With or without your benevolence.

So maybe, just get used to that.