It’s not that I’m too proud to be gay;
It’s how I justify to myself that I’m not afraid.
It’s not that I shove my lifestyle in anyone’s face,
I want to show everyone that they can have their own voice;
One that can show the world we are not going to back down from smite and shame.
We continue to subject our society to judgmental and slanderous words, words that are taught to us from books, magazines and our elders.
Not once do we think about the consequences or effects when one speaks with an open mouth.
Before we go out trying to profess the “truth,” we should take a walk down that judged road.
It is a road filled with pain, agony and shame.
Before we act,
Imagine the life of someone who identifies as something other than heterosexual.
If we can learn how to understand people other than just labeling them, Take away the judgmental and complex lifestyle we’re trapped in and try to create a society more accepting and civil.
If we believe that everyone is unique in their own way,
Why should we label them in a category in which we’re afraid.
As a whole, we are scared of change,
The change of lifestyle that’s getting more support every day.
It take us back to where we first started,
“Let us be free. Let’s have a nation different from all the others. One that can make a change to not only itself, but to open the eyes of the rest of the world.”
I’m not gay because I chose this passage;
I’m gay because I was born to have voice.
A voice that can speak for the silenced.
A voice that can change words on a paper, and even thoughts for nations.