(This is a small something I wrote for someone. I was asked to write on 'Homophobia'. Here's how it went.)
I see you walk with him. I see you walk hand in hand.
He steals a kiss; your face lights up.
I see you stop in the distance. You stop just to look at him.
You can’t believe you had found him.
I see him hold you. He holds you in that ‘forever’ embrace.
Life, as you knew it, would never be the same.
You see me look at you from the corner of your eye
You see my look of adulation
You see the joy on my face, just to see you that happy.
And I don’t even know you.
You see me walk with him. You see us walk hand in hand.
He steals a kiss; my face lights up.
You see us stop in the distance. I stop just to look at him.
I can’t believe I had found him.
You see him hold me. He holds me in that ‘forever’ embrace.
Life, as we knew it, would never be the same.
But I see you look at us from the corner of my eye
I see that look of disdain
I see the fear splashed all over your face.
I can feel you wanting to ‘cure’ me,
Wanting to rid me of my ‘disease’
And you don’t even know me.
His hand was tailor made for mine
Just like his was for you
My lover’s embrace is my force field
Just like your lover’s is yours
We dream our dream house together
Just like you dream yours
We are unapologetically, irrevocably in love
Just like you say you are
Our love can’t be explained
Just like yours
Why then, must I question myself?
Why then, must I live in shame?
Why then, must I give you answers?
Why then, must I succumb to your irrationalities?
Why then, don’t I deserve to be happy?
You choose to see differences,
I see perfect similarities
You look for ways to make me disappear
I just want to coexist
You try and make me more like you
I say, what’s the fun in that?
