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Only Human
My heart is a pit of brackish water.
Mixed and confused.
I reach out so someone can purify every drop.
Nothing, no one there, just darkness and my despair.
I long to be held, but by whom?
A man?
A woman?
I've had both it's true, I battle with the waves of labels placed on me every day.
Lesbian.
Straight.
Bisexual.
Just because you put water in a glass, does not mean that it is in it's true form.
How then can you put a person in a label, trying to contain them?
The only label I should have is human, as everyone else should have.
Words constantly bind people like wound up thread.
Even if the words have good intentions.
Stop using words to bind people.
Nobody should have to feel like they are stuck to a set of rules for their love life.
I am looking for someone, but who I'm not sure.
For once in my life I am aimless to love.
My arrow is spinning around like a broken compass.
If my arrow lands on a woman I am a lesbian.
If it lands on a man I am either bisexual, or I am straight and just went through a "phase."
None of these are true, yet
All I want to find is true love again.
I want everything to be simple.
No puzzled questions from people about my sexual orientation.
Why ask such trivial questions as that?
Every day I'm torn with how I should answer that question.
So I chose D.) None of the above.
I am only human.
Mixed and confused.
I reach out so someone can purify every drop.
Nothing, no one there, just darkness and my despair.
I long to be held, but by whom?
A man?
A woman?
I've had both it's true, I battle with the waves of labels placed on me every day.
Lesbian.
Straight.
Bisexual.
Just because you put water in a glass, does not mean that it is in it's true form.
How then can you put a person in a label, trying to contain them?
The only label I should have is human, as everyone else should have.
Words constantly bind people like wound up thread.
Even if the words have good intentions.
Stop using words to bind people.
Nobody should have to feel like they are stuck to a set of rules for their love life.
I am looking for someone, but who I'm not sure.
For once in my life I am aimless to love.
My arrow is spinning around like a broken compass.
If my arrow lands on a woman I am a lesbian.
If it lands on a man I am either bisexual, or I am straight and just went through a "phase."
None of these are true, yet
All I want to find is true love again.
I want everything to be simple.
No puzzled questions from people about my sexual orientation.
Why ask such trivial questions as that?
Every day I'm torn with how I should answer that question.
So I chose D.) None of the above.
I am only human.
Published 26th Oct 2016
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27th Oct 2016 4:51pm
excellent poetic search, attempting to make sense of life. I really love the first line which beautifully sets up the rest of the piece and the last line caps off the debate. On a personal note I have always thought that sex has a far more important place than it deserves - can two people love each other without sex? Parents and children do it, grandparents do it, siblings do it - yet it is so rare in couples - sex causes so many problems - anyway I digress - this was such a good write and it would lend itself well to becoming a performance piece :-)
28th Oct 2016 1:45am
Thank you so much David. :) I do agree sex can cause problems, and relationships should not be centered around it. Thank you for your support as always!
