To the flamboyant boy from my school,
I realize now, you’ve always been cool,
From the way that you dressed up,
To your expressions, always over the top.
I remember how we shunned you,
All the hush-hush behind you,
‘Cause somebody told you’re gay,
And you kinda behaved that way.
But now I’m questioning everything,
That I’ve learned in my childhood days,
For they were flat out rude and demeaning,
A better me, I want to embrace.
I wish I stood up for you back then,
Questioned everything again and again,
Why is, “You are so gay,” an insult,
While “You are so manly,” a compliment?
Why weren’t we taught anything in schools?
Lifelong education, and graduating fools.
I’m sorry that I opened my eyes a lot later,
But I’m glad, it’s better late than never.
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A lovely piece Shreya! This is how change happens. When we accept and recognize our past shortcomings and choose to strive to be someone better. Well written!
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Thank you so much, Brad! So glad you like it. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Very true..happens a lot
Lovely poem!
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Thank you so much, Akshita!! ♥️
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I’m glad that you opened your eyes. Better late than never! Beautifully written, Shreya
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Thank you so much, Shweta!! ♥️♥️♥️🤗🤗🤗🤗
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Pleasure 🤗
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Such a beautiful thought put into words amazingly.
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Thanks a million! ♥️♥️♥️
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I regret what I did not know too, Shreya. Thank goodness our hearts and minds are willing to bend and embrace new.
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Well, we can’t go change the past, we can just be better. 🤗🤗🤗♥️♥️♥️
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Yes Perhaps We Should
Ask What If No Gay What
About All The Love Songs
Elton John Created Inspiring
Millions Of Folks to
Procreate
In The
Passion
His Songs
Helped Sire
All Those Children
Who Would Direct
The Church Choirs What About the
Up to 58 Percent Of Homosexually
Inclined Young Men Studied As
Such Within The Catholic
Church
That
Make
A Marriage
Free Priest Even
Possible For Up
To 60 Percent of
Catholic Churches to Exist
What About All The Arts The
Literature The Poetry Paintings
All The Music Theater And So
Much More
Yes What About
All Those With Enough
Days On Their Hands Now
Not Raising Children Who
Find So Many Ways to
Lift Others Up Who
Might
Other
Wise Fall
Down And Never
Get Up Yes What
About Gay Folks God’s
Greatest Gift That Even
Makes Life Tolerable With
The Colors They
Bring
To Life
For Those
They Benefit
The Most The
Drab Ignorant
Clothes Of Life
Who Otherwise
Exist in Grey Scale Life…
They Would Fucking
Wanna
Die
Without
The Gifts Gay Folks Bring…
God Has A Greater Plan
Than Ignorance
All
Rainbow
Colors Of Souls…
Not To Leave Out
All The Gay Scientists/Doctors
Teachers/Professors
Who Make Four
Wheel Drives
Possible
And
Even
Trailer Parks
And What
Picks Up The
Garbage And
Saves Us From Disease…
Fortunately Gay Folks
Rise
Above
Grey
Scale Purgatory
And Black Abyss Trailer Park Life…
There Was A Gay Guy Who Lived
Down The Road From Us In A
Little House Who All The ‘First
Baptist’ Folks Made Fun of
(And the Rest of
His “Redneck
School”) Yes
Ironically He
Just Retired
From A
Highest
Position
With The Government
Making More Money
Than The Homophobic
Last Vice President Mike Pence
Nah… Without Gay Folks Society
Would
Be
Broken
In Every Way
People Who
Are Ignorant are Clueless
Ignorance Is The Real Devil of Life…
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So true. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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😊🙌
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Such an eye opening post and the way you’ve presented it, absolutely beautiful Shreya!
It’s so important to accept them as part of us only.
We will definitely bring the change and I can see it’s beginning with this shout out post by you. More power to your pen Shreya❤️
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Aww… Rashmi… Your comment always makes me smile. Thank you so much!! Love you so so so so much. ♥️♥️♥️
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This is such an apt take on the social stigmas and beliefs we follow. But I am so glad that many of us now a days can see the flaw and chose to act otherwise.
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