What Can I Say

By lillylove406

Tue, 03 Sep 2013
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I'm on the outside.

I'm alone.

No one hears my cries,

Because no one cares.

All I ever needed was someone to love
me,

Someone to listen.

What happens when someone feels like
they can't go on?

When they feel like the worlds against
them?

How can I say what I want to say,

When if I say it,

Everything will change.

Never have I felt so alone,

Staring in the mirror,

And realizing my own,

Worst nightmare,

Is being played before my eyes.

What will my mother say,

Will tears spring to her eyes?

My father,

Would he be angered,

By the words that escape my lips?

My friends,

When they look at me,

Will the view be different?

If my teachers discover my hidden life,

Will they turn against me?

I see what goes on,

Society says it is a horrific
disability.

That with the right drugs,

The right morals,

I can be fixed.

How can I say,

What needs to be said,

I'm gay.

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Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Hey, I hope it gets better for the person in the poem.

Is 'society' always this stupid? There are other gay people out there. 'They say' its 1 in 10.

In England it has been legal for men to be gay and do something about it since 1967. In Scotland since 1981. It has never been illegal to be a lesbian, the reason for this is that Queen Victoria said there was no such thing.

Good poem

All the best     Elsie

Submitted by lillylove406 on

The society in question is my local society it is amazing how close minded people in my country and state can be. Sickening really. And I actually wrote this for my mother, she is gay and i tried to imagine what it was like for her.

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Hi Lilly

I am glad you explained who you wrote the poem for. Your local society and state (are you writing from the USA, I think a handful of writers here are) sounds, like you say as if some of them are 'close minded' and it helps when people are outspoken and brave. It's great that you are loyal to your mother.

If you want to read the work of a gay American poet who was certainly good at expressing his ideas and emotions, and have not yet got round to it, I'm a great fan of Allen Ginsberg. The line that I use for my signature at the end of my posts (though I might take it off at the end of the week when people have read it) is from a letter his mother wrote to him.

all the best     Elsie

 

Submitted by lillylove406 on

wow thank you so much for that comment! I will most certainly look into his work and yours! :)