Gender Reveal

Is it excitement in the air
or is there just a tension there
among the people that I love,
who await the gender reveal?

There’s no balloons or cake required,
no pyrotechnics to be fired,
no, this is a muted affair:
in our group chat, would you believe?

It might be either he or she,
or they that I announce to be
the person I am dating now,
and no-one minds at all, you see.

I’m privileged, I know I’m blessed,
my friends are quite content to guess
and speculate on the colour 
of love at the gender reveal.