I am from my mother at sixteen being the life of the party,
and by eighteen being an alcoholic.
I am from my father at eighteen being the host of that same party,
and by twenty being a drug addict.
I am from a love story like no other.
I am from my mother's alcohol infested womb at twenty three,
and two weeks later being adopted
I am from an adoptive mothers love,
and an adoptive fathers abusive anger.
I am from an adoptive home with a father who wasn't a father,
and an adoptive mother who loved me like I was born from her womb.
I am from my struggle at fourteen,
with an addiction to painkillers.
I am from my doctor being my drug dealer.
I am from the amazing freedom of being off drugs
and never wanting to go back.
I am from being black in a predominately white neighborhood.
I am from harassment from the cops
because of the color of my skin.
I am from breaking the law,
to being a model member of the communities of which I am involved.
I am from skipping school because of my own figuring out of my gender identity,
to a straight A student
because I found a place where I am accepted for who I am
and I am Proud to be Black, Proud to be White and Proud to be a Man.
I am from my mother at sixteen being the life of the party,
and by eighteen being an alcoholic.
I am from my father at eighteen being the host of that same party,
and by twenty being a drug addict.
I am from a love story like no other.
I am from my mother's alcohol infested womb at twenty three,
and two weeks later being adopted
I am from an adoptive mothers love,
and an adoptive fathers abusive anger.
I am from an adoptive home with a father who wasn't a father,
and an adoptive mother who loved me like I was born from her womb.
I am from my struggle at fourteen,
with an addiction to painkillers.
I am from my doctor being my drug dealer.
I am from the amazing freedom of being off drugs
and never wanting to go back.
I am from being black in a predominately white neighborhood.
I am from harassment from the cops
because of the color of my skin.
I am from breaking the law,
to being a model member of the communities of which I am involved.
I am from skipping school because of my own figuring out of my gender identity,
to a straight A student
because I found a place where I am accepted for who I am
and I am Proud to be Black, Proud to be White and Proud to be a transman.
I am an activist and believe that the world can be changed through art. I also believe that art can give voices to people who normally would not have one, so that's what I try to do with my writing give group's of people that want to and need to and should be heard a platform to say what is needed to be said. Writing is also my way out. It's how I process the negative parts of life. I pour my self and experiences into my writing in hopes that writing will make the parts of the world that I have to live in and even the parts that I don't live in more positive. I feel safe in my writing and I feel peaceful in my writing. It is now time to step out of my comfort zone and share my self and experiences and ultimately my life with others. These poems are my story and whether people agree with it or not this is how I see the the world at these particular moments in time good, or bad! For me my poems are a snap shot in time not a decade, not a lifetime just how I feel at that moment. That is just how it is. Enough about me let's go write!
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