Slam poem for poetry club. I get to perform it at our slam

12\21\17. I'm excited!

I have a friend

Who is in grade 7

He recently came out as being bi

Now people tease him

Make fun of him

Say stuff like

You're gay?!

You like guys?!

They yell cruel things like

Homo

Faggot

Gay homo faggot

I can't believe you like guys

He told my friend

That it takes everything he has

Not to break down

And cry in his classes

He says the only class he feels okay in

Is Spanish

Because Spanish is in the high school

And high schoolers are chill

We as a Society

Break people down

Put them on their last nerve

Their last ounce of ability of holding together

We as a society

Can't handle differences

We can't handle change

If somebody is different from everyone else

We as a society

Target them

We opt to eliminate that difference

My question is

Why?

Is it really necessary?

Is it worth it?

Why?

Why can't we accept differences?

What's wrong with a little change?

It doesn't affect you much anyway

Why is it such a big deal

If someone likes someone of the same gender?

Why does it matter so much

If someone feels they were born in the wrong body

And wants to change their gender?

It's kind of like evolution in a sense

We should be able to move on

Adapt

And change

To fit the changes around us

Why does that give us the right to hate them?

We shouldn't hate them because they're not the same

So why do we?

So what if a guy likes another guy?

So what if a girl likes another girl?

Maybe a guy or girl likes both!

Why does it matter if someone prefers

Not to specify their gender

NEWS FLASH

In the end

We are all still HUMAN

Everyone's love deserves to be valid

And if a gay boy wants to paint his dang nails

Let him

Heck I'll be the one to paint them

Or maybe a straight guy paints his nails

It doesn't make him gay

Not that gay is bad

It's not

But we don't get to choose other people's sexuality

That's up to them

We as a society

Are quick to judge and hate

Remember my gay 7th grade friend?

Today he told me

That is health teacher refused to call on him

And the day before

Told him if he didn't take the paint off his nails

He was going to give him a detention

We as a society

Don't have any idea

How much crap they take

How many beatings they get

Both verbally

And physically

I don't know how else to stress

That it is okay to be gay

It is okay to be different

If you're not gay

Be a supporter

Not a hater

Not that it's any of your business

But I'm straight

And I think that

We as a society

Are ignorant

We are an ignorant society

I may be straight

But today I wear rainbow

Because I am an LGBT supporter

They are here

They are queer

And they are

NOT

Going anywhere!