Transpersona Shapeshifters

Transpersona Shapeshifters
© Surazeus
2024 11 23

We humans are transpersona shapeshifters, 
performing roles of different characters 
distinct from features of gender and race, 
and even species, designed by our genes 
when Nature stamps our biological form 
with skills fit to survive our environment. 

Each person with specific attributes, 
produced by genes their ancestors designed 
by surviving natural environments, 
creates persona based on social roles 
provided by their tribe community 
to perform duties that sustain the group. 

All species who have evolved from the ocean 
developed two genders to reproduce 
variations of their bodies to achieve 
greater success incarnating their forms 
where males provide sperm that fertilize eggs 
females nurse into functioning adults. 

Humans who survive best in river valleys 
perform standard roles of male and female 
where mothers bear and raise children with love, 
teaching them to express their thoughts in words, 
while fathers hunt for food and guard their clans 
by building haven to support their growth. 

Some humans are born with variant forms 
ambiguous for which role they have to play, 
while others wake with dream-evolving brains 
that perceive spiritual energy of hope 
which motivates actions creatures perform, 
so they become transpersona shapeshifters. 

Shamans wearing skins of wild animals 
they killed in vicious battle to the death 
shapeshift into persona of the demon 
that haunts the tribe to dispel all their fears 
till we humans kill monsters of the wild 
by wearing mask of the devil we fear. 

With expanding hierarchies of state power 
humans wear elaborate persona costumes 
to perform grand roles of authority, 
priests of religions, or kings of empires, 
now presidents of companies and states, 
molding souls as transpersona shapeshifters. 

As babies, first born as specific genders 
with sex organs designed by chromosomes 
to generate new life before we die, 
we are nothing more than organic bodies, 
but as we grow we define our persona 
based on role models in our tribal tales. 

Each person creates role they want to play 
in complex system of society 
organized around actions we perform 
to sustain function of conceptual faith 
extracting material from earth to make 
and distribute food we need to survive. 

While each person performs their social role 
in the global food-production machine, 
actors, as transpersona shapeshifters, 
play roles in staged dramas of social issues 
to channel secret passions of our hearts, 
presenting effects of choices we make. 

The most sacred principle we uphold 
decrees each person may do as they will 
with this body their consciousness controls 
if they harm none, so my body, my choice, 
defines guiding motive our souls express 
since we are all transpersona shapeshifters. 

Depending on which purpose for this life 
each person chooses to perform game of power, 
this persona we design from our hearts 
asserts our choice to reproduce or not 
as we seek soul mate who matches our goal, 
since humans are transpersona shapeshifters.