(This is kind of a spoken poetry type thing.)
Who am I?
The question echoed through your mind for months, tearing at your self esteem and beating on your self love as if it were a punching bag.
You were you. Or were you?
It wasn't as much a matter of who as it was a matter of what.
But the what defines the who, and so you didn't know.
Who you are didn't matter.
What you are didn't matter.
You were a mess.
Did you fall into the written lines of the society that has been around for centuries
Or did you fall into the path that has been paved by a recent breakthrough
The wall has been torn down but in it's way are blobs of anger
Anger shouting and shouting and shouting
No you can't be like this
This is wrong
You are wrong
But the crippling realization of the truth is what shackles your heart to the standards that have always existed
Am I not normal
Am I a freak
Am I an embarrassment
The anger rumbles through your body like a storm lightning striking every positive thought grey clouds covering all sheds of light
No hope
No light
No life
Then it appears
A single spark an erupting flame a roaring fire
People scream for their rights and the grey begins to fade
You're not the same now as you were then
You know what you are
The storm has formed a rainbow
A combination of colors that you could not see for the longest time drawn out across the sky
Hope
You knew not everyone would except you but it didn't matter
Light
A glowing hand held yours tight guiding you into the light again pulling you out of the storm
Life
Discovering yourself is the point they can try to ignore you to shut you down but you are you you have always been you
You have always been what you are now you just didn't know it you didn't understand
But now you do
It is now longer a matter of what or who
The answer will not change
The answer has not changed
The answer has always been you
No matter when or how many times you asked it has always remained the same
You are you
You are the answer
So now I ask
Who are you?
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I didn't know where I was going with that, but I'm not disappointed
This page is a safe page everyone, it doesn't matter what your gender or sexual preference is, hell you could have neither. It's all good here.
You shouldn't feel you have to be who others tell you to be, okay?
Happy pride everyone, take care!
