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Edmund W.

Freer Queer

No longer do I feel I must tiptoe around

The subjects and the sayings that others expound. 

The heat of the spotlight I feared shone on me

Now hugs me instead of alighting anxiety. 


To be open demands the hope and the scope

Of a pioneer who steers through the frontier

Through fear of what they can’t see or hear. 

Though fear jeers whenever it appears,

I cheer myself to know I’m freer queer. 


The secrets that I’ve always kept

From everyone, even me,

I have learned to accept,

To embrace my identity. 


I used to pray for a miracle to bring me cheer,

But now throughout this year a whole theory has premiered. 

My spirit blossoms lyrical at this mental souvenir

And I feel just like a girandole to say it so sincere. 

I find that it’s empirical to say I’m freer queer. 


Once I feared that others wouldn’t want me,

That I’d face both shunning and scorning. 

Now I take such behavior as a warning

To not let those people haunt me. 


Irritating it is for fear to interfere

With happiness we try so hard to engineer. 

Through each period so serious we feel we need a hero, hey. 

But each fear of each delirium I find I veer away from. 

It’s clear, my dear, I’m merely freer queer.


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