She has a pretty face,
But how did she get there?

Once she was a man,
No longer so – through the change
A transformation.

There is a medical method
Of face feminization surgery
And there is the sorcery of
Make-up applied just right.

Sometimes the hormones taken
Make subtle changes
And sometimes men are born
With a woman’s visage.

And there is the inner secret
Of knowing who she is NOW!
That makes her face always pretty –
No matter what its form.

©2024 Carl Scott Harker, author of

The Hedgehog
and other Selected Poems