52 weeks of positivity (kinda)

Pride

Pride

For all the hulabaloo, about being away at the time

I did actually go to pride this year

Though only realised the night before

So had some dodgy rainbows on my face

Crafted by my little sister,

Then me and Emma,

Hit the streets of reading

Me with my rainbow umbrella

Her with her pride flag she'd stolen from her schools drama department

Though most of the parade had already passed

We managed to get in at the end

Less marching

More walking

Till we got into the festival ground.

Overwhelmed by the noise and bright colours

We retreated to a corner

Tempted to leave early,

"well first I want some pins"

I said

So we wandered from stall to stall.

Soon we began to pick up stickers

"hey, lets see how many we can get"

And so we rushed from stall to stall

Collecting rainbow as we went

Also: Crisps,

Sweets,

Plastic sperm: the whole range

Till we'd enjoyed and explored most of the festivities,

Our feet ached

Our chest's covered with stickers

Some more political then we agreed with

Some didn't even have rainbows on them!

16 each

In total

We counted

As we sipped our hot chocolates at the end of our adventure

Covered in rainbows from head to toe

A contrast to the beige of everyone not here for the festival.

"well,"

I said

"that's our target to beat for next year"

notes:

I cant believe i forgot to put this poem in (happened a few weeks ago) i think im now caught up again. I do really enjoy this (forcing myself to publish one poem a week) i might continue it next year. :)