Page 20 - Fallen Thoughts

Where I Am

How do I explain to you?
That I'm part of something,
Welcoming.
Beautiful.

Larger than myself.
How can you still live

In extremes?
Yes or no.
Black or white.
Life isn't that simple.

I've embraced it,
But you fight against it.
Fight against me.

And you don't even realize,
You've plunged a dagger
Through my heart.

You can't see that
I'm fighting to stay alive.
This is a one sided battle.

Not because one of us
Is giving in,
But because only one side,
Knows that we're fighting.

I don't feel welcome
In the place you say
Is my home.

My home, my real one,
Is an abstract concept.
Nowhere and everywhere

My home is in the poems
I read and write
In the community that