slurs
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Chants of slurs follow people
down the streets
through the halls
in jobs
in home.
Places supposed to be sacrad and safe
Turned against them.
Nobody woke up and asked to be called 'Fag'
You know when you wake up in the middle of the night and you choose to not wear your glasses?
You know what the Bible says
The harsh words are whispered into my ears,
It isn’t natural.
I close my eyes and breathe.
They’ll never accept you.
I spent my life after I came out
And I found friends who were as gay as me
Many of us often were called "faggots"
At one point, we tried to reclaim the word
A human body is made up of trillions of cells
Those cells form together to make people
People vary in size from babies the size of a hand
To still growing adults above eight feet tall
It's just really frustrating:how it only takes one person to ruina safe space; feeling obligatedto play into the "nice guy's" hands; how you
