You nail it into our heads like you nail bullets into our brains, you set us ablaze with ice and fire until all we know is agony, consumed by your words but we can't say much for fear you'll kill us, beat us, 'cause any news we see of us are only of our ghosts. We are not your toys and we are not we are not your over-dramatic shopping buddies and we are not your excuse to be like that. You take the love away from this earth and let everyone else cower before you. You let us cower before you. You make us cower before you.
I don’t think a lot of people know what it’s really like to be gay. Or, well, not just “gay”, but on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. That’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and a whole lot more. Obviously …show more content…
It's so much easier to ignore what doesn't involve you but the issue of everyone’s identity does. Everyone falls somewhere on or outside the spectrum between male or female, and somewhere the spectrum of who we are and are not attracted to. The fact that we are so much rarer to see on the spectrum means that to you, we're invisible, like silent spirits in a cemetery, fluttering flowers in fragments of a window, ink-smudges and pixels on the TV screen. We’re your body count but it doesn’t have to be your problem if you can just shove us deep inside the closet alongside our corpses. And before you say I’m not talking about you, remember - just because you don't rip our hearts in two like some offering to God doesn't mean that we can't die from each tiny drop of blood you steal with your paper-cut …show more content…
” “I can just tell that she's a lesbian – she wears masculine clothes and cuts her hair short.” “Oh, you're writing a slam poem pretending you're a gay person.” You might have good intentions but intentions aren't as important as the impact of words so carelessly spoken. Trying to defend your own feelings, rather than acknowledging that you hurt someone else with your words, is like you wanting to dance with someone and then stepping on their toes and when they tell you how painful it is you get defensive because “I didn't mean to, jeez, can't you appreciate my feelings?” It doesn't make their toes hurt any less; it doesn't make either of you feel any better, and it doesn't resolve anything. Each word might seem just like tiny feathers, almost unnoticeable and so harmless, but a kilogram of feathers building up over time can be just as harmful as having a kilogram of metal thrown suddenly at you - if not worse. I mean - who would care about a kilogram of feathers, anyways? It’s just such a small problem, you’re overreacting, they did nothing wrong, it doesn’t matter just shut
I don’t think a lot of people know what it’s really like to be gay. Or, well, not just “gay”, but on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. That’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and a whole lot more. Obviously …show more content…
It's so much easier to ignore what doesn't involve you but the issue of everyone’s identity does. Everyone falls somewhere on or outside the spectrum between male or female, and somewhere the spectrum of who we are and are not attracted to. The fact that we are so much rarer to see on the spectrum means that to you, we're invisible, like silent spirits in a cemetery, fluttering flowers in fragments of a window, ink-smudges and pixels on the TV screen. We’re your body count but it doesn’t have to be your problem if you can just shove us deep inside the closet alongside our corpses. And before you say I’m not talking about you, remember - just because you don't rip our hearts in two like some offering to God doesn't mean that we can't die from each tiny drop of blood you steal with your paper-cut …show more content…
” “I can just tell that she's a lesbian – she wears masculine clothes and cuts her hair short.” “Oh, you're writing a slam poem pretending you're a gay person.” You might have good intentions but intentions aren't as important as the impact of words so carelessly spoken. Trying to defend your own feelings, rather than acknowledging that you hurt someone else with your words, is like you wanting to dance with someone and then stepping on their toes and when they tell you how painful it is you get defensive because “I didn't mean to, jeez, can't you appreciate my feelings?” It doesn't make their toes hurt any less; it doesn't make either of you feel any better, and it doesn't resolve anything. Each word might seem just like tiny feathers, almost unnoticeable and so harmless, but a kilogram of feathers building up over time can be just as harmful as having a kilogram of metal thrown suddenly at you - if not worse. I mean - who would care about a kilogram of feathers, anyways? It’s just such a small problem, you’re overreacting, they did nothing wrong, it doesn’t matter just shut