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Frustration With the American Climate of Massacres

At what point do we as a society built on the fundamental
Ideals of trust, love, protection
Decide that violence can be prevented?
Decide that choices lead to consequences
That mar and destroy the lives we claim are sacred?
At what point do enough children barely alive and still growing
Get shot before they can thrive?
At what point does a hobby, does an antiquated right,
Pale in comparison to the blood on your money?
Decide that the love your God tells you to have
Might mean giving up what you cherish.
And if you can’t see that more guns mean more
Deaths by guns
Maybe pray a little bit harder.
But while you ponder and pore over data
More of your children will suffer.
And if you can’t see that you have the means for change
Give action a chance, be the lover.

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What Depression Means To Me, Family Edition

You have taken the last
Piece of me
Everything that has
Made all of me
Wrapped and smothered
Choking and withered
Dying and screaming
Internally
You told me with words
I could never exist
You told me with fists
I should never try
I believed everything
Because words said you love me
You act through God’s will
To disassemble my
Identity
And to tell me I fail
At being what you need
And I should die a daughter 
So you are satisfied

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Something I Am Not

Pink bows, lace shows
Underneath girl clothes.
She/her, feminine blur
And so I hide in liquor.
I was born and now I’m stuck
Being something I am not.

Future wife, present daughter
Certified Manslaughter.
Do you know the pain you cause
Pulpiteer of God’s strict laws?
Name myself and dress I ought
For a girl is something I am not.

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What Depression Means To Me

I see shades of blue in a brightly hued world.
So much blue, that my rivers overflow
With sadness and pain and sorrows and rain
That effuses down in emotion
And sometimes the river swallows me whole,
And I slice my way out to the top
But the shore is dry—
Brimming with nothing and empty
And everyone else is alive.

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I Am Your Son

I am your son
Why don’t you see me?
I am your son
Know God said love reigns?
You can put me in a dress,
Wrap me up in femininity
But I am still your son
And if you think that you know
Better, I ask you honestly
To consider why you have such defense
Against truth, my intuition
And I know that you crave understanding
But I am just as thrown
That you would rather have a
Despondent Daughter
Than a change and happy Son

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The Catholic Church of Love and Acceptance

No one is brainwashed if everyone is
And my mom is right about that.
But she doesn’t just listen, she believes and she knows
That no other soul knows true love.
And who am I to judge how people follow a God?
But who are they to judge me?
If the point of religion is to spread peace and love
Few brave zealots follow through.
If I were to believe in a God
It would be a concept so fulfilling and calm
I’d be content to know I could live life with love,
I’d be content in keeping it to myself.
I’d be content in having a higher power of love,
And I’d know not everyone wants that.
As soon as you know that you know the only love,
Your love is twisted and conditional.
Your son will never feel your love
And that’s not what your God wanted.

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My Name

You don’t hear my name
Even though I tell you, brave
I stand before the bigots:
Please let a single fossil rule cave

And that I would even find the care
To tell you of the night in my mind
That buries me even in daylight
You could see how acceptance is kind

Shine, a name that reflects the light
The truth about my hidden soul
Something you never knew
But will learn does make me whole

You don’t hear the name I choose
Because, perhaps, you think you lose
The child that you raised to be
But believe and know I still am me

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Addictions and Change

I battle addictions
And they’re as sweet as honey,
As a summer day and I’m okay
Good feeling’s only price is surrender

I battle addictions
And they feel like watching
Myself rip up rationality,
Building and spreading like cancer

I battle addictions
And they infest every cell
My body, home to an unchecked mind
And longing that feels like home

I battle addictions
And recovery is more painful
So every day they scream to return
And sometimes I do and lose

I battle addictions
And I know that I don’t want to
And I know my mind is changing
And there might be hope in circumstance 

One day I will break the cycle
The familiar repeat of desire
What holds me down and chokes me
But will someday make me stronger

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Holy War

You and yourself are a holy war
A happy pain you won’t ignore
You and yourself are a holy war
You won’t believe your family as you trust the air
A system of love and hate that you think is fair
A blissful struggle at your core 
You and yourself are a holy war 
You listen hungrily to generations of lies
Only to tell me that your very own hands are tied
As you live in death just like a chore
You and yourself are a holy war 
Your son is gay and can’t follow the path
That you think you know will avoid God’s wrath
So you blindly see the only open door
But it makes you a vicious holy war
Your family is suffering under the weight
Of the misunderstanding that simply is hate
But you choose to be forced to follow, this god you swore
For whom you fight righteously a holy war

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Hard Work and Goodness, For Once

I finally feel like flowers
Look on and the day it rises
It grows and swirls, but gently
For the first time in a century.
I can notice the patterns within me-- 
The gardens and snowfall and caverns
I can speak and listen and be heard
At once a hippo and now a firebird
I’m a gallantly graceful gorgeous 
I’m a singingly
A dancing endless
I finally feel like flowers
Recovery is priceless