a thousand wishes

The trouble with coming out

Punching walls has never been my thing 

Because I know what type of pain it\'ll bring 

I\'m not against violence  

But it is against me 

Against my entire being  

 

I know how fucking insane  

I have to be to believe that  

Somewhere out there is a person 

Just for me and that when I feel 

No, when I know I\'ve finally found her 

She\'s ripped away like Velcro 

Maybe I should have stuck with laces 

But Velcro is harder to replace, 

 

Maybe at a different time, 

I could stand tall and hold her hand  

And say hey I\'m gay, so I don’t care  

What you say about me or about her 

And I could come out again today but when I did 

For the first time it was like  

Talking to a brick wall 

But two brick walls that I look like 

2 bricks walls that raised me 

Not very well, 

But yeah they were here 

 

And I should be grateful to have them 

And maybe in some alternate universe I am  

Maybe in some other place, they are better people 

Maybe in that other universe, I am better 

Because of them 

 

But in this one they hunt and haunt me  

Like monsters 

They stalk me, mentally and emotionally execute me  

Until I come back to pick up my pieces and do it all again 

 

and I wonder if I was raised by brick walls;

if these 2 brick walls gave me life,

can I ever be anything other than a brick wall

can I be made of straw or sticks

easily crashing down but not easily drowned

not so heavy, so much lighter than bricks

instead of an anchor can I ever float and be at ease?

 

The problem with coming out is,

it opens up doors and asks questions

you never knew existed.