OctPoWriMo 28 - Which Path to Take?

Now I must choose which path I want to take:

Can I be fake and part of me refuse?

Will I embrace the whole of who I am?

They’ll say I’m damned no matter what the case.

For me to be myself I must be true

To all of who I am: I must be free.

But do they need to know the inner part

Inside my heart, the corners where I bleed?

I’ve dithered here at crossroads for so long:

What’s right or wrong? I can’t control my fear;

I can’t decide what I should or say.

Is there a way they won’t be horrified?

If only I could see the future now,

I would know how to end this quandary.

 

OctPoWriMo 26 - Coming Out

“Coming out” can mean multiple things,
But usually it indicates that you
Have been hiding, but now you break through,
To be free, to rise on honest wings.
Hiding part of who you are can sting;
It’s hard on you when you cannot be true,
To know that no one knows th’authentic you,
And so you step into the light and sing.

You are the only you who’ll ever be,
And if you are not you, then no one will.
We should fete the open closet door,
Love one another, help them to be free.
Rejection, disapproval, hatred kills;
Everyone deserves their wings, to soar.