Poetic Justice
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Ignored
By Tyler Franks
Once
Disowned by its family
a baseball rolled away
he rolled to the nearest place
where the children liked to play
but he was left alone
that beautiful
summer
day
he lay there
while the children came
and went
he lay there
and watched the children play
he lay there
waiting
as summer
slowly
slipped
away
he lay there
as the leaves
began to fall
he lay there
as the wind took them away
he lay there
and like so many things
left alone
he
slowly
fell
apart
Dedicated to the man of my dreams
We lie in the grass
underneath the moonlit sky
the warm breeze blows past
us as we count the stars up high
the crickets play our song
sweet symphony descends
the fireflies dance along
like a spell cast on the wind
I stare into midnight blue
as I lie in your embrace
oblivious to all but you
and the serenity of our special place
some might call it sin
but our honor I will defend
we are just two young men
deep in love and best of friends
The Collapse of the World
Where would your life be if the world ceased to turn round,
And what's below turned up and what's above fell down?
Would the blood rush to your head and still flow to your feet?
Would your heart carry on; would it be able to beat?
What would you do if your world was turned upside-down?
Would you be able to walk; would you drop from the ground?
Would you be able to stand if you tried with all might,
Or would you plummet from earth and fall into night?
Would the land crumble in; would the ocean fall from the skies?
Would the clouds turn to tissue and catch the tears from sea's eyes?
Would the fish empty out; could they swim through the gloom,
Or would they fall into void and welcome sunlight as doom?
Would the clouds drown in ocean or smother in rain?
Would plants be uprooted; would they shrivel in pain?
Would the fowls cease their flight and surrender their nest?
Would they be able to live if unable to rest?
So, what would you do if your world was broken in two?
Really—please tell me—what would you do?
I Learned I Needed No One Else
Joey
"How the Grinch Stole Marriage" Copywrite (c) 2004 by Mary Ann Horton.
Every Gay down in Gayville liked Gay Marriage a lot......
But the Grinch, who lived just east of Gayville, did NOT!!
The Grinch hated happy Gays! The whole Marriage season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, his Florsheims were too tight.
But I think the most likely reason of all was
His heart and brain were two sizes too small.
"And they're buying their tuxes!" he snarled with a sneer,
"Tomorrow's the first Gay Wedding! It's practically here!"
Then he growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming,
"I MUST find some way to stop Gay Marriage from coming!"
For, tomorrow, he knew... All the Gay girls and boys
would wake bright and early. They'd rush for their vows!
And then! Oh, the Joys! Oh, the Joys!
And THEN they'd do something he liked least of all!
Every Gay down in Gayville the tall and the small,
would stand close together, all happy and blissing.
They'd stand hand-in-hand. And the Gays would start kissing!
"I MUST stop Gay Marriage from coming! ...But HOW?"
"Then he got an idea! An awful idea!
THE GRINCH GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!
""I know what to do!" The Grinch laughed in his throat.
And he went to his closet, grabbed his sheet and his hood.
And he chuckled, and clucked, with a great Grinchy word!
"With this beard and this cross, I look just like our Lord!"
""All I need is a Scripture..." The Grinch looked around.
But, true Scripture is scarce, there was none to be found.
Did that stop the old Grinch...? No! The Grinch simply said,
"With no Scripture on Marriage, I'll fake one instead!"
"It's one man and one woman," the Grinch falsely said.
"Then he broke in the courthouse. A rather tight pinch.
But, if Georgie could do it, then so could the Grinch.
The little Gay benefits hung in a row.
"These bennies," he grinned, "are the first things to go!"
"Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most uncanny,
around the whole room, and he took every benny!
Health care for partners! Doctors for kiddies!
Tax rights! Adoptions! Pensions and Wills!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, with a chill,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, in his bill.
"Then he slunk to the kitchen, and stole Wedding Cake.
He cleaned out that icebox and made it look straight.
He took the Gay-bar keys! He took the Gay Flag.
Why, that Grinch even took their last Gay birdseed bag!
""And NOW!" grinned the Grinch, "I will pocket their Rings."
And the Grinch grabbed the Rings, and he started to shove
when he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove.
He turned around fast, and off flew his hood.
Little Lisa-Bi Gay behind him sadly stood.
The Grinch had been caught by small Lisa-Bi.
She stared at the Grinch and said, "My, oh, my, why?"
"Why are you taking our Wedding Rings? WHY?"
"But, you know, that old Grinch was so smart and so slick
He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!
"Why, my sweet little tot," the fake Shepherd sneered,
"The judges are evil, the other states weird."
"I'll fix the rings there and I'll bring them back here."
"It was quarter past dawn... All the Gays, still a-bed,
all the Gays still a-snooze when he packed up and fled.
"Pooh-Pooh to the Gays!" he was grinch-ish-ly humming.
"They're finding out now no Gay Marriage is coming!"
"Their mouths will hang open a minute or two
then the Gays down in Gayville will all cry Boo-Hoo!"
"He stared down at Gayville! The Grinch popped his eyes!
Then he shook! What he saw was a shocking surprise!
Every Gay down in Gayville, the tall and the small,
was kissing! Without any bennies at all!
He HADN'T stopped Marriage from coming! IT CAME!
Somehow or other, it came just the same!
"And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling: "How could it be so?"
"It came without lawyers, no papers to sort!"
"It came without licenses, came without courts!"
And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
""Maybe Marriage," he thought, "doesn't come from the court.
Maybe Marriage...perhaps... comes right from the heart.
Maybe Marriage comes from all the words the Gays say.
Words like Husband, like Wedding, and Spouse who is Gay."
And what happened then...? Well...in Gayville they say
that the Grinch's small brain grew three sizes that day!
"And the Gays had their Weddings. They promised for life.
They swore to be faithful, to Wife and her Wife.
The Husbands were happy, to each other they vowed
To be Out and be Honest, be Gay and be Proud.
They told all their neighbors and friends of their Spouse,
They told of their Marriage and sharing their house.
They said "We got Married." They shouted it loud.
Their marital status was "Married and Proud."
"And the minute his heart didn't feel quite so tight,
He whizzed with his load through the bright morning light.
And he brought back the rings, cake and Gay birdseed bags!
And he... ...HE HIMSELF... hung the Gay Rainbow Flag!
and said "These are my children, and I love them all."
Setting here alone in the dark, as my heart beats a silent rhythm for someone to love me.
Sometimes I feel so dirty because I am alone in the dark and all the water in my world cannot wash me clean enough to give me a love pure enough to bring me back from the dark, where I am setting on the edge of fading away unseen, unheard and unknown of.
Sometimes I feel so alone in the dark and all the lights in my world cannot light my path home to you.
Sure enough someone will tell me ,love will find me when I am not looking, but
You are the straw, and the camel has died
He lies just over that hill, on his side
The final word spoken and brought to fruition
Cracking his spine in a snap of volition
The animal, once strong, now to death submits
Killed by a word that fell from your lips
A metaphor of love and the ills of relation
I mourn his passing, with little consolation
Like so many before him, he was steady and true
Until his load he could not bear, and was downed by you
Killed intentionally and with premeditation
His blood flows softly holding your incrimination
for they cannot see,
beyond the hate they were taught
through legacy.
People fear what they don't understand or can't explain.
Is that why you look at him
and him in shame?
"GOD HATES FAGS"
are the signs they carry.
They hate in your name God,
isn't that scary?
They spit on the woman
who has every right to choose.
They turn their backs on anyone
who doesn't believe the way they do.
Fallow their rules or
they will make it a law.
Separation of church and state,
do they recognize that at all?
Narrow minded holier than thou people,
in your hypocritical church
with your self-righteous steeple.
Judging all the time
how everyone else is so wrong.
How dare you tell anyone
who they can love or where they belong.
What would they do
if everyone were the same?
With no one to hate
and no one to blame
for all the sin they protrude?
You better believe the way that they do
And if not,well then,to hell with you.
Love is Blind