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I Awoke Weeping..A Sad But Hopeful Dream

Author: 

  • Drea DiMaggio

Audience Rating: 

  • General Audience (pg)

Publication: 

  • Verse, Poetry, Lyric

Genre: 

  • Transgender

Character Age: 

  • College / Twenties

Other Keywords: 

  • Thanks
  • Only a dream but we can make a difference

Permission: 

  • Posted by author(s)
I Awoke Weeping
A Sad but Hopeful Dream

by Andrea Lena Dimaggio


 

By a tree by a river a young lad in a dress
Sang Transgender, transgender, transgender
And I said to her, Lassie, why such a distress?
Singing Transgender, transgender, transgender
Is it sorrow or sadness? I asked as she cried
Or a feeling of being a girl deep inside?
With a nod of her poor little head, she replied
Oh, Transgender, transgender, transgender!

She patted her breast, as she sat by the stream
Singing Transgender, transgender, transgender
With a sad wistful smile on her face it did seem
Oh, Transgender, transgender, transgender
She sobbed and she sighed, and she wept one small tear
She plunged neath the water ere I could draw near
And she sank straight away as she sang without fear
Oh, Transgender, transgender, transgender

I awoke and remembered we too share that name
Transgender, transgender, transgender
And you've felt that rejection that made her exclaim
Transgender, transgender, transgender
So If you need a shoulder on which you may weep
Avail you of mine as you slumber and sleep
And then we'll find our solace in caring so deep
Transgender, transgender, transgender

 
Based on the song Willow - Tit-willow
from the Comic Opera The Mikado
Words and Music by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan


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