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Breaking the Silence


Statements that stay behind closed doors, they stay in the room Hover above your head Seep into your mind fall into your river of thoughts Sink deep into your conscious Straying off to your emotions But hush don't let those trembling temptations Let you scream out these secrets They are untold but hard to hold when no one knows what you know Your fears melt into the core of your heart Making it difficult to reveal these secrets Hurting you inside Tears over flowing your once dry eyes With such a mute emotion now you cant hide But hush don't let those trembling temptations Let you scream out these secrets They change the shape of your personality People starring at you with disbelief Stares sharp enough to cut your face Sounds turn silent Colors turn gray Expressions are omitted from everyone's face Those secrets creep into friendships and relationships too But hush don't let those trembling temptations Let you scream out these secrets You will be left alone with no barrier Weak and uncovered exposed to everyone You will turn blue because of judgment You will be isolated cold shaking aching with unanswered questions That appear to cycle every 10 seconds Freezing your "mistakes" and making them stay longer But hush don't let those secrets dissolve In front of the people who don't care about you Secrets are only bad they don't help much But if I break my silence these people will harm me Just don't let it get to you These secrets they only create assumptions when you mess up So OPEN UP OPEN UP Tell these secrets break the silence Even though there is a trembling fear of homophobia Open up So I break my silence: I need a friend to tell my secrets to I need a teacher to guide me through I need a parent to love me I need support an ally that will stand by me I am unraveling my own secrets Now its yours to won I need you I need you I need all of you To clench on to my soul My secrets are similar to your own I am a Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Queer I am an Ally, I question my sexuality I simply want to own love, compassion, respect And for someone to take over a thrown A thrown meant for a queen Her name is support I want her to claim her thrown Because these secrets she can hold Support Homosexuality not Homophobia
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I am a motivational writer, an out spoken speaker, an intellectual college bound student and I am always up for a challenge. My intentions and contributions to make life meaningful for the multicultural purpose of freedom is to motivate & empower the powerless around me. I make a difference by using my most valuable weapon my talents: poetry, music, speeches and service. The vision I work for to finally see is to overcome the oppression of women, homosexuals, and Black/Latinos. We as a people forget that being human is living life as a free spirit because if the spirit is en-caged it dies of isolation and oppression.

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