Empire State Building, floor 102.
Thatโs where Iโll be waiting for you.
You guys are like family, I love you in a way.
Iโll be your friend and solace, strong roof over your heads.
Pull up to your wedding, be your best man, wipe your tears when itโs over.
But donโt jump off, babe, soon weโre all going to be happy.
In Empire State, someday weโll all be free.
I wanna fall in love at least once before I die, even if it brings me down.
So donโt jump off, babe, soon weโll all stop being lonely.
Empire State, someday weโll all be free.
I can see the words trapped in your eyes when you look at me.
Someday you wonโt have to fear it.
Weโll hold hands doing laps around Central Park in summer.
Weโll french kiss on the subway like some blazed down gunners.
Donโt be afraid of the dark when you feel it.
Someday you wonโt ever have to fear it.
Iโll go to New York City, Iโll be grateful to stand where they stood.
I was in heaven when they were dying, I swear I emphasized with them when nobody could.
Itโs sad when I think what my brothers and sisters have suffered while I sat on Jesusโs lap.
Itโs not my ******* fault that Jesus made me gay as ****.
Iโm looking in the wrong places, forever out of luck.
But someday I wonโt have to wander.
Someday I will open my blinds and invite the light in.
Iโll be at the beachside, old and happily married.
In a townhouse painted green which has a garden of hydrangeas, nourish me.
Iโm a hemlock baby, fruit of toxicity but Iโm still beautiful.
Step on me all you want, but Iโll still do lots of good.
The empathy within me is as strong as a stone wall standing tall and lingering on.
Thereโs radioactivity, discovered by Madame Curie and Iโm carrying it along.
But I have faith still
that God loves me
I wish to love another in the same way, Lord let me.
I will give you
roof and solace
Someday youโre gonna need it before you get to give it.
I can see the scars on your soul when you expose it to me.
Someday you wonโt have to loathe them.
Weโll dance with locked hands jiving to music of liberation.
Remember what they took from us, be proud of what he had.
Donโt hate yourself and donโt think youโre broken.
Youโre just beautiful in a world thatโs not yet awoken.
A songbird once sang to me that someday weโd all be free.
The pain that you endured, it will be your strength, it will lead you forward, it will hold your hand.
A songbird once sang to me that someday weโd all be happy.
Iโll come to your wedding, be your best man, cry with joy as youโre standing at the altar.
Empire State, weโll throw baby showers, grow vegetables together, perform in gay bars on street corners.
In Empire State, weโll kiss on the subway, be invisible, marry each other on floor 102.
I wanna fall in love at least once before I die, I just wanna fall in love.
Itโll be okay,
weโll all be free someday,
Empire State, donโt you jump off.
Poem #15 off โDivine Providenceโ
The final poem off the collection and my final poem for now. Itโs about being hopeful and resilient, remembering what the world has taken from you and being determined to get it back. To have a life worth living. Iโm gone until I catch a glimpse of it. My main inspiration for this poem was Season 11 of American Horror Story and the song โRadioactivityโ by Kraftwerk.