I logged onto facebook the other day,
someone tagged me in a post that said today...
wear purple.
Wear the color on your skin in honor of kids
Who lost their lives being homophobically bullied to death
A new concept
A virtual way of trying to make a difference
What you don’t see is that my heart, it bleeds
Every single time you point at something stupid and say
Oh my god dude! That is so gay!
It wrinkles me up inside, just a little bit
Forces me to hide from your careless whiff of humor
Forcing me to feel, like there’s something wrong in being me
You think its so easy to tag people on a social networking site
Pretending that wearing a particular color on a particular day
Is going to change the way my life is… the way I’ve been treated?
Is it going to change the way Asher Brown died the other day
A gun shot through his head
Seth had a rope around his neck and a tree
And Tyler Clementi was found, drowned, swollen, purple and blue
Did you know their names at all, does any of this even affect you?
Does it cut right through you, break your heart make you feel like your guts are on the floor, like I’m so tired of speaking up, I don’t have the strength to fight this anymore
This is the world we live in
Just because you don’t see it, refuse to believe it
Doesn’t make it unreal
Do these words make you feel uncomfortable?
Good. Maybe now you’ll see the shame they force me with
At what point did you decide that you get the right to have an opinion on
who I fall in love with, or who I want to spend the rest of my life with
Who said that you had a say in my life, my lover or any of this?
When they say that it’s a sin to be gay
I don’t believe they know what they’re saying
Coz if there is a God, he made me this way
With the ability to love without boundaries, without the limitation of gender orientation
I can love… unconditionally!
It don't matter if you’re a girl or a boy
I see beyond the body painted on your soul, right to your heart that makes you whole
I love you for who you are, not for who you cannot be.
Because that, it doesn’t matter to me!
I got tagged in a post on facebook today. Wear Purple, it said –
To fight homophobic bullying and make a difference.
What you still don’t see is that,
I’m a bisexual woman and I bleed many shades of purple, everyday.
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