The Hell With Labels!

What do you go as?

What's your label?

So is it nature or nurture?

Oooooh! Everyone experiments; it's just a phase.

Hmmm, have you tried therapy?

You're going to hell.

Whoa whoa…

Nothing is wrong with me.

Stop trying to push me in the direction you think is best for me.

On this path to try and “fix” me

As if I was this robot who needed reprogramming

As if my motherboard raised me differently.

Stop trying to box me, mold me, arm and limb me into directions that don't move me.

These barriers placed to limit me, but uplift you.

Keeping society happy if I stay within the lines of the small-minded minds.

But oh! How dare I hold hands with a woman, kiss a woman, try and build a family with a woman,

Then there's a mal, mal, malfunction. A virus

Suddenly I have issues, like what man hurt you? Who didn't lay it down right? Daddy issues.

What does it matter who I sleep with? My sexual preference doesn't define my competence.

But these confident congregations making decisions, people, people, people, please,

We help our people, we move our people, we the people, by the people

Stressing, oppressing, over-complicating, bitching about same sex relations

Misrepresentations of equality

Because as long as the prophet wrote it, said it, it's good enough to be fed it

Using the prophet’s words as armor like you need to defend yourselves from me

As if my sexuality was aiming towards you, full speed, like you need to keep guarded from me

Like if you're around me for too long you might catch "it" you might become "it"

Well I hope you catch my message and you become changed from it.

I hope there's a shift, a switch, mentally, spiritually

A never-ending stirring of emotions to seek justice

This gut wrenching pull to end discrimination

A desperate hunger for change, a wanting satisfaction for equality

But, don't judge me because you can't understand the complexity of my make up, but stand with me for the sake of a better humanity.

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