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Submitted: May 23, 2008    Reads: 92    Comments: 5    Likes: 2   


This is me; just how I am
I like boys and that’s okay
If you don’t like it
That’s just fine too
 
I’ve got everything I need
Great friends who are here to stay
They appreciate me just how I am
Nothing to impress them I have to do
 
But there are some things I can’t figure out
Why my own lord and savior won’t accept me
I didn’t do anything to be this way
I didn’t mean anyone harm
 
But they say the lord can’t love me
And I don’t get it; all I’ve done is be
I only want to be happy and be I
Sometimes I just want to shout; ring a damned alarm
 
 
Mother, I love you
And you love how you think I am
But you need to accept this too
If you really want me satisfied
 
I know you don’t accept their kind
And I wish you could maybe pretend?
I want you to love me and me
Yu could at least give it a try
 
Anywho, this world is so very kind
To people like me, You agree?
Kill them, torture them, “It’s not right.”
But I didn’t mean it, I didn’t mean to be me


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John
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This poem is utterly amazing. It is extremly accurate to my own life! This is very inspirational and I feel your pain. You are truly a remarkable young man. Thank You, you have touched me greatly.

Posted: May 27, 2008

Author Comment:

Thank you for commenting and I'm glad I could relate to you. Actually, I'm a bisexual girl and I was writing from a gay male teenager's perspective. Glad I pulled it off though. Thanks so much again!

-Tally

I love the emotion conveyed...the sentiments are so true to my own. Oftentimes, though, I strive for the level of comfortability that your speaker has adopted in regards to his sexuality - specifically being his confidence. I myself am not at that stage but it is truly reassuring to hear the words of another echo what I yearn for often. Keep writing....I'd love you to read some of my own!

Posted: Jun 20, 2008

Author Comment:

Yes, he is becoming more comfortable with himself, but when he is having a sort of low point in his confidence, he says he isn't gay anymore. I just wish I could do more to make him realize how beautiful of a person he is.
You aren't alone, and you can achieve it.

I'll add some of your pieces to my reading list. Sorry if I don't stop by soon!

--Tally

Homosexuality is a choice! A choice that cannot be made, nor can it be taken back. Therefore, technically, it is not a choice. Besides, there always has to be someone or some people that have to suffer for the rest of the society to come together. For instance, the Jews in Germany, Tibet in China, tribes in Africa, the list goes on and on. I call it the Conscapegoat syndrome. People can't work with each other without someone to hate, so that their anger can bring them unity. So, yeah, we homo/bisexuals are just the scapegoats of the United States.

Posted: Jun 20, 2008

Author Comment:

The way someone is isn't a choice, actually. And you contradicted your own words in the third sentence, so you pretty much lost me.
I don't support or understand that theory at all. Have a nice day!

--Tally

hey, this was magnificant.
I really enjoyed it, your very talented
keep it up

Posted: Jun 22, 2008

Author Comment:

Thank you so much! Your statement means a lot to me.

--Tally

this is a really really good poem. it's true, being gay isn't a choice, and i think if i had a choice then i wouldn't have chosen it, but now that 've accepted myself as bi, it's pretty cool, and i wouldn't change this for the world, but given that choice, i would have never known this side. great work!

Posted: Oct 24, 2008

Author Comment:

Thanks for your story and comments.

--Tally



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