Mama please sit down
I have something to say
Mama, I'm Gay.
Mama, I've known for some time
It's something I've grown to accept
and it's something I've kept.
Mama, why do you scream?
Why all this yelling, this casting blame?
Don't you know that I'm the same?
Mama, don't cry, please don't cry
So many tears have already been shed
One my pillows and on my bed.
Mama, I wanted you to know
Out of love this action was taken
And No my dad didnt touch me and I'm not mistaken.
Mama, why would I choose this life
Knowing what I feel at the moment
And how I experience torment.
Mama, I can never change
No amount of praying or saying
Can change what's inside me.
Mama, Please sit down, Take a breath
I am sorry if I am not what you prefer
But I ask you to think it over.
Mama, I've done what's needed
Can you let me back into your heart
Or will your ignorance keep us apart?
I have been meaning to write something to this effect. Coming out was a battle and I won that battle. But sometimes in those battles you lose someone you rather not lose.
I dedicate this poem to the LGBT Community.
To all the ones who came out to their moms, dads, whoever you needed to come out to.
To the ones who still havent come out
And to the ones who never made it to that step.