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Breaking out

People ask why I don't talk of the past

Those good ol' days everyone should have

I always look away whenever they ask

For my happy days started later than that

 

Before I came out I lived in a box

Stifling and small with what felt like a lock

Then one day recently I found my way out

I escaped forever from my screams and shouts

 

You wouldn't understand unless you were there

How frustrating it was, I was hiding so scared

Like a closet of darkness I've always lived in

Feeling condemned like I'd committed some sin

 

I broke my way out of that dark ugly box

Made only for males and for only male thoughts

Finding beautiful senses and thoughts and things

Now I am where i should be and wanting to sing

 

by Lj Mark

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