Soul

How do you know
the gender of your soul.

Anatomy declares us
male or female
but our soul is
who we are.

We use terms
like boy and girl
because we have
no better words.

How do you know
that through every incarnation
you will stay a boy
or stay a girl.

What if you are male
in one life
and female in the next.

What if at one point
your soul loved a man
but it now loves a woman.

Does that make you gay,
or one of the other various
pointless labels.

Your soul connects
with who its meant
to connect with.

It is only vaguely aware
of the body it inhabits
its gender
its race
its sexuality
its mind.

The soul is separate
but still one.

We are convinced
that what is not natural
for the body
is an evil from the soul

But maybe it's the
other way around.