'Coming Out'
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You like boys right?
Uh yeah, I do.
Have you found one yet?
Not yet but maybe soon!
You like girls too?
Yeah, that’s true!
Daddy, I’m in love with a girl
Well I wouldn’t call it love just yet
But daddy I could be in love with a girl
Well she’s not really a girl
I mean they.
They’re not really a girl
First, find out you have to get on this roller coaster,
You see the signs pointing toward the ride
You climb the stairs
Silence;
was a man i once ‘loved’
he said he lived in the bath
that perhaps
if i held my head
below water
“Yes”
I finally said
and my mother’s eyes filled with tears
her gut with pain
her words with poison
my father left my room
my brother looked at me
why his eyes said
Do not push me back into that closet
because you're too ashamed
of who I am.
Do not "warn" me about anything
because you haven't been in my situation
nor ever will be.
Have you ever been scared?
Felt like the blood in your body just stopped moving,
Stopped circulating, make you believe you’re dead
Like if you tried to step forward your leg would break on impact.
