In Her Way

About a queer girl I met when I was just discovering my attraction to girls wasn't just a fleeting thing.

 

 

She’s beautiful in that interesting way

She picked up no pencil to look that way

She studied no ad in the mall on her way

To the Vietnamese shop at the end of the way

 

I’m not supposed to feel like that

 

She’s free under her sweater

A bright color against the cold

The sky is gray and endless

Her eyes argue, warm and bold

 

It hasn’t started raining yet

But my hands feel like they’ll freeze

I wish I was underneath her shirt

Where I’d feel her body squeeze

 

I’m not supposed to feel like that

I hear my mother in my head

She sees that I am waking up

And she’s stuffing a pillow on my head

 

She’s beautiful in that interesting way

Reviews

[Constance]

I can only imagine what it was like, realizing that you were different in that way. We are all different in so many ways, but so many have a hard time accepting THAT particular difference. Men like to joke about watching Lesbians play, but when it comes to making laws, they don't seem so sympathetic, do they?
This is an insightful piece, and well written. Thank you for telling me a story in these few pat stanzas. The story went beyond them in my mind, which means this is great poetry.

[Sandra K]

This is a good poem. Finding our sexuality is hard and interesting. I have been ingnoring mine, but i am now at the part in my life, where its ok for me to share and express this feeling i have. I am not scared or embarssed about it. Poems like these being put out into the world will only show that these thoughts and desires are only natural, and its is not wrong to have. Thank you for sharing this poem. It is special in its own way. I am also going to put in in my own library as a work of art.

Sandra K.