Submissions by jesse_nb

It's ok to vote No" you scream;  
"I have a right to my opinion" you protest;  
"I have my view, and you have yours";  
Never defending your opinion, only ever your right to have one  
   
What you don't realise,    
What you refuse to understand,  
What you cannot seem to begin to grasp,    
Is the real suffering that these words cause  
   
The closeted teens who can only hear hatred and hostility  
The girl with two mums who is tormented without respite  
The out and proud 40 year old gay man reduced to tears by the...

I have been living in a fog for 18 and a half months.

For 81 weeks I save seen the world around me as nothing but dull; made up of murky browns, dreary greys and off greens.

Sometimes the fog becomes so thick that I can't see the floor under my feet. I cling to my bedsheets like a raft drifting in this ocean of mist.

I scratch, claw, cut at my skin to check that's it's still there beneath the fog.

My other senses try to make up for my clouded vision. I hear every whisper like deafening thunder. I feel every touch like a blade dragged across my...