Drittland
(Third Country)
There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~ Euripides
A question is asked again and again:
Boy or girl? They have a bet.
Crushing
Derision
Explicit contempt
Forget not the question
Girl or boy? They have a bet.
Heartbreak matters not
In queries such as these.
Judgments are finite
Kept measured and clean.
License to question
Mercenary manifest
Naive, noxious and nasty.
Oh, boy, oh, girl what a bet.
Pomposity perpetuates the pain.
Quell the
Rising recreant need
Safeguard the system
To which they are married.
Unabridged umbrage is taken.
Vituperate the void!
When no answer is shaken.
Xenophobia demands an explanation.
You must answer.
Zealots command. They have a bet.
halfcnote 
Oh, very nice! Love the level of originality!
Thanks, again. It was a challenge to stay true to the received form and the flow of the idea.