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Trying to Stay Inside the Lines
If you brush away all the fallen leaves,
from the branches of my family tree.
You're likely to find a few old bones that,
we've tried to keep hidden from history.
As with all families you're gonna find,
things that no one ever dared to bring out.
Gays, lesbians, bi and transgender were,
the kind of things that no one talked about.
Back in those days they whispered horrid words,
all about subjects that were quite taboo.
Now accepted as just a way of life,
that many people now openly choose.
I say that all the 'eccentricities',
that filled up our ancestral lineage.
Have helped color in all of the blank spots,
though some paint may have spread over the edge.
It is so hard to stay inside the lines,
when it’s colored in by so many hands.
Our quirks and words and peculiar traits,
are perhaps what helps us to understand.
That it's from those colors that gently bled,
and all those secrets that were never told.
That created who we became today,
and we don't have to all fit the same mold.
Copyright ©
Jerry Brotherton
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