Sandcastles

[Guest Rustic Monk]

Sandcastles

Gabriel Duncan

i wear it on my shoulder

just like a flag

like a chip of a rainbow

just like a badge

when i hear them say it

it's hurts the part inside

that was used to being deaf

and blind to hide

i think of what i fought for

what our awareness has become

now that faggots are still sticks

and nooses hang up in the classrooms

it doesn't mean the same thing to them

as it does to us today

we're part of the history

their filthy mouths betray

if they fought beside us then

as much as they stand aside today

maybe then they'd see the reason

it hurts so much today

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