LOVE

LOVE

When we were small
We sought that love and approval and never found it
We searched at his house, so small we were
He taught us so much but none of it had love
All of it was wrong.
He gave us small girls dresses and ribbons in our hair
When we went to school, were sent back home immediately to change
Into proper boys clothes….
We didn’t understand, were we a boy or a girl


Did he love us, or didn’t he?
Did we have to be even better than we already thought we were?
Did he love us? Were we in his heart? We flexed and bowed, in all directions
We thought him the sun and the moon and all the stars above
When he gave us love, or we thought it was love.
It was so hard to please him, his booming voice and
His punishment
And still we didn’t know, were we a boy or a girl?


The day we were too old, he didn’t love us anymore he said
Too old, too old, but others would, oh yes they would
So dress up nicely.


We can’t go on
We are just too sad
But here YOU are and you do not ask any such thing
You accept, you like what we write and encourage us to carry on
So yes if there is such thing as love, I do think we finally found it
And you all won’t stop loving
Won’t stop
Will say carry on
Do it because you can!
That!


<3 <3 <3


© Darren White