"Just a phase."
Three words that burn into my skin,
Leaving invisible scars only I can see.

"Just a phase."
A sentence that causes my skin to crawl,
My heart rip out of my chest and tap-dance on the floor in front of me.

"Just a phase."
"Phase."
'A distinct period or stage in a process of change.'
A change for the better? A change for worse? Is my love just a proses that will blow over like the leaves in autumn?
Is my feelings something that process into something completely different?

"Phase."
'Each aspects of the moon or a planet, according to the amount of its illumination.'
So is my friends smile, their personality just and aspect of a much bigger scale? A process that can change?

"Just a phase."
So when I write poems, I right something that is insignificant to the world? When I draw I spend time on something that is forming a much bigger development?

"Just a phase."
When I dated a girl for the first time it was like I had discovered a new world.
I was Alice down the rabbit hole onto wonderland.
A part of my opened up. A door. A window. A wonder. A world.
But that world will slowly fall a part because it's 'just a phase.'

Do I tread on snowy grounds where every footprint is a 'phase?'
Do I dance on icicles that will snap as soon as I make a wrong spin?

I didn't cut my hair due to some "phase."
This isn't a work in progress. This isn't a search for attention. This isn't going to change. Not for the better and not for the worse. This is me.

This isn't "just a phase"
Because I'm not 'just' anything.
I'm a human being.
And so are you.
We're all together and we're NOT a phase.

I'm not scared of the woman who has changed her gender.
I'm not scared that she is a pervert.
I will buy her makeup.
I will hold her hair out the way if she's throwing up.
I will go clothes shopping and let her try on every fucking dress the shop has to offer.
Because she isn't going through a phase.
You are. And you need to snap out of it real fast or you'll be left behind.

Like the phases of kings and queens in the past.
Like the phases of dictators and rulers who died out.
Because we are an army.
And we're not 'just an army.'
We are THE army