I once had a wife

and a mother

and a grandmother

I once had an Aunt

and a sister

a niece

and a female cousin

 

but now I have no wife

no mother

no sister

no aunt

In their place I have

a thing called

gender neutrality

 

my relationships changed

without me realizing it

or having a say in it

overnight I lost my entire family

 

you cannot hug

a gender neutral pronoun

or squeeze an ounce of love

out of something so bland

as a gender neutral word

 

give us back

our terminology

our specific pronouns

we once had science

we had biology

we had common sense.