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The Struggle

May 7, 2015
By LadyLynx1498 BRONZE, McMinnville, Oregon
LadyLynx1498 BRONZE, McMinnville, Oregon
1 article 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
– William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)


Struggle is everywhere.

It could be here, it could be there.

Without hope, joy, or love

when the struggle goes from push to shove.

Through the watery eyes of a teenage dreamer.

Who never lie, but never tell the truth

A struggle to learn

a struggle to feel

a struggle to love,to be real, to find a true identity, to find and show sexuality.

the struggle to stay strong and unbreakable. 

A struggle to stay pure and untaintable. 

The struggle will stay

It will never leave

It will stay every day

through eternity. 

The struggle will stay, through decades and beyoned, in all of our genes.

Passed on like a sickness or a disease.

It will stay.


The author's comments:

This poem is about an LGBTQ member of society who struggles to show their true self because of society suppression of beliefs. I wrote it, because at one point, that was me. On the outside and the inside. 


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on Jun. 9 2015 at 4:57 pm
LadyLynx1498 BRONZE, McMinnville, Oregon
1 article 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
– William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Thank you! That makes me feel so much better. It was really hard to put my work out there.

Tamie GOLD said...
on Jun. 8 2015 at 10:25 am
Tamie GOLD, Sonora, California
18 articles 2 photos 61 comments

Favorite Quote:
"if you can be anyone just be you unless you could be Buffy Summers then be Buffy Summers"

I like it. You have some great talent. This could be more then a hobbie.