An exercise in pride

Jumping through the guilt loops of openly being proud of your identity

An excercise in pride

It's weighed on my mind for a while now,

that maybe there is something wrong with saying we are the same

then taking such pride in my difference

like some days I feel like I'm lording over them

or like I shouldn't say them like someting else. 

you see,

Adam say's to me that an alliance is something you form in battle

so why form a QSA if you aren't planning on starting a war

and that hits me. 

Makes me think about everything I am.

How can I yell peace if I'm busy fighting?

And then I think f**k that.

How many of those who came before us have been killed?

how many of us have lost family and friends?

How many have hidden in our own pride parades in fear of camera's sending home the message of who we are?

F**k yeah there is a war

but an alliance is what ends it. 

I'm so gay that I couldn't live without it

It's how I love myself

it's how I love my friends

It's how I love

and I won't be ashamed of that

I tell everyone how I love Sherlock Holmes

and doctor who

and anyone who I f*****g want

because pansexual is my everything

I'm pan and I love everything

there's nothing wrong with that.

And if people are so desperate to take that away then it must be something worth having.