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The Study of Life

May 6, 2023
By Adeline GOLD, Las Vegas, Nevada
Adeline GOLD, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Favorite Quote:
"Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."


Biology-the study of life
Creating the law to determine a husband or wife
Discovering the natural order
Redefining what it means to be her
Picking apart everything organic
Searching for answers within the Atlantic

An art and a science in one
Perfecting the imperfect and I am just done
Yet it can’t explain me
I have become a busy bee
Reading your words
As they scatter like birds

I scream into the abyss of the unfairness
I wish for an answer of the unkindness.
For how can I defy the laws we made
How come I am so afraid?
Society continues to scrutinize
Refuses to revolutionize

You tell me I’m impossible
You tell me I’m wrong, broken even
You tell me I’m young and brash
Once I become an adult things will change
Once I meet the right one
I will be fixed
Or you will fix me, won’t you?

They push and pull me everyday
But it is only a display
Struggling to understand these things
Navigating the stone between my ribs
Trying to see the impossible as possible
They are balancing on the tip of my blade
And I haven’t decided where they will fall

I’m not biologically possible
Intimacy and love are life
The touch and presence of another is divine
I don’t know what I am missing
Since I never felt it fading
Maybe the weakness didn’t register in my head
Maybe that disgust is love that I bled
That chill down my spine is intimacy
Maybe, possibly, ridiculously, traditionally

Or I’m just not alive like you
You live for all of them and I for so few
If you took the science out of feelings you would understand
We could finally stand hand-in-hand

But you don’t care
And I am done being there
For I’m not broken
I’m alive, maybe more than your chosen one
Biology is the study of life
But it is not the study of me.


The author's comments:

I was in Biology and was thinking of a conversation I had with my family about my sexuality


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