I Am Poem by Katie Crane
(selected as a 2012 Literary Harvest winner)
 

I am gay and I'm no different from anyone else

I wonder how people will react to this fact

I hear every eye turn on me

I see words become daggers ready to attack

I want someone to love just like you

I am gay and I'm no different from anyone else

I pretend I don't care about what people think

I feel my shell breaking becoming who I really am

I touch the memories of when I found love then lost it in that same moment

I worry that I'll never find someone new

I cry when I think of how many people are lost each day to suicide

I am gay and I'm no different from anyone else

I understand that I'll lose many with those tow simple words

I say if love is love, why should we care who it's with

I dream of the day where everyone can say 'I do'

I hope that one day we can see everyone as equals

I am gay and I'm no different from anyone else