I Am

Who am I?
A voiceless face.
An enigma among
the human race.

A perversion of God
Created through sin.
An “abomination”
that should never have been.

I am the child
that parents forsake
when they find that I
am just a mistake.

I am the shame
in my father's eyes;
the reason for
my mother's sighs.

I am the hatred
that bubbles inside
the men and the women
who force me to hide.

But who are you,
to think you can say
that I'm a mistake
just because I am gay?