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What More Can We Do

April 12, 2015
By declan_2016_ GOLD, Hilmar, California
declan_2016_ GOLD, Hilmar, California
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Remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.<br /> A.A. Milne


What more can we do


Than live our lives, with feelings askew


We are told growing up to just be one self

 

as long as that is Cis and Straight

 

with all other feelings stashed on the shelf

 

They emphasize the need for us to be true

 

then tell us our feelings are just a phase to be worked through

 

Mothers, Fathers, adults all alike

 

force us to act like we really are Cis and Straight

 

otherwise, we're no longer their little tyke.

 

As though high school wasn't already hard enough to go through

 

we now have to deal with all this s*** too

 

Parents aren't the only one with these views in place

 

If we come out as anything other than Cis and  Straight

 

Everyone at school views us as a Disgrace

 

We don't know how to do this alone, we have no clue

 

we need people in our lives who share our view

 

We turn away from church and to the internet

 

Although we know God loves us even though we aren't Cis and Straight

 

We look for people with the same interest

 

We turn to hate and violence thanks to you

 

we destroy ourselves because of what you put us through

 

We carve into our thighs, drink and get high

 

In hopes that we can survive the torture of not being Cis and Straight

 

All because we are trans, gay or bi.

 

We are forced to live a life painful and untrue

 

just so we can keep the love of you

 

We want you by our sides no matter what you do

 

because you are our family and love is the glue

 

looking back at then I never knew

 

how much pain family will put you through

 

The day the blade touched my thigh was my cue

 

as the tears fell i hit a breakthrough

 

I was done letting them treat me like i was the flu

 

I became my true self, allbright and new

 

I no longer cared if they loved me anew

 

they never would have survived a day in my shoes

 

I fought long and hard to finally pull through.

 

I've finally accepted myself thanks to you.

 

Who would have thought that my life would be whole,

 

only after my skin had been cut through.



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