Only you know

Only I know who I am

Only I know who I like, yet others

dare to question who I identify as telling

Me I’m wrong saying to me, you aren’t that

Saying I have to like a certain thing or want a certain thing to

Be that but that is me.

My sister mocks me saying, you can’t be

Gay you don’t even want to do it with a guy

Yet my feelings lie deep wanting and loving the

Boy that probably doesn’t even know my name

Identifying myself was hard, finding

My true nature and how I feel was a journey I’ll never regret or

Forget taking yet when others guess my sexuality they resort

To violence, cruel words, words that stab me

Words that leave me sitting at the edge of a bridge wondering

What did I do wrong?

Bruises litter my body from, heat to toe, all the harsh beatings I

Have been given, some people just aren’t accepting

Though as I they hit me, call me names no one ever should be called

I still smile at them and stupidly forgive them as the world

Needs goodness if that means smiling to your enemies then that’s

What it takes, all I can do is thank them for covering my body

In a sea of galaxies, that compliment the dark pools 

I call my eyes.