They think me
cold,
un-natural,
shy-
when all I do
is hide,
mask my heat
pain, desire-
all I do is
stay alive
Is a hostile world
this
thorns and stones
my mates believe
are my natural wage-
death, despair
my only fruit
reward on earth.
I’m gay-
that’s it,
fault of faults
deserving death-
shame, despair
so I hide
in broad daylight.
(c)GayUganda 11 Feb. 09
7 comments:
Touching. Thank you. I know this feeling all too well...
Great minds think alike. I posted something like this yesterday; more wordy but in the same vein. This has never been a better time to be gay and we should thank God for that ... yes, even in Uganda.
AfroGay
And just to balance the mood... I worked for a couple of years in a company which was all straight men, and for the first time I realised how rich the gay vsion of life actually is. I could handle their view of things, but it was so 'straight' (and so limited!), while I was seeing both their angle and a more 'female' one at the same time.
It felt like being able to see in colour while they (unknowingly) could only see in black-and-white. An amazing experience. I've always appreciated being a gay male over a straight one,better from then on.
Seeing and thinking in ¨colour¨...what a fascinating thought for LGBT people.
Thanks for the Poem...may I post it at my blog? I love it.
Leonardo
Seeing in colour...!
Too true. I do have to thank my orientation for that percept. Life is so much richer, lusher, in colour, than the dull dichotomy of black and white.
Yes Ricardo, you are welcome.
gug
"Great minds thiink alike?"
Such modesty.
Great poem [whine and all] :P
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