KarMel
Scholarship 2007
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Honorable
Mention: Best
Gay Pride “Please
Mom, Come Fight It with Me” By
Courtney Krimmel - MD |
Desciption of Submission:
“This poem I wrote after an anti-gay protest happened
at a nearby high school, protesting their GSA. I was going to attend the rally
that students planned to support the GSA. My mother wasn't exactly supportive
of my bisexuality so the thought of her coming was outrageous. So I wrote this
in a hopeful moment that she would come with me. The rally ended up being on my
birthday and it rained, but if you drove by you would see over one hundred
students and parents with banners and posters and steamers, screaming their
lungs out in protest of the hate. I was screaming right along with them, my
mother holding my hand the whole time. That year my birthday wish came true.” -
Courtney
Why Karen and Melody Liked It: It was a new
topic submitted to our scholarship. We have not seen a work done in
relation to having a parent come out and join them in the Gay Pride
celebration. We loved how this poem also related to her real life, in
which Courtney’s mother did join her in the gay pride rally.
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The drums are beating My family is singing Come join me in my dance This may be my only chance Don’t just wish me luck Our arms we must un-tuck One thing I could never
bear From my chest my heart
would tear Denial from you would be
too much My head ripped in two I
clutch There is a revolution at
hand And we need a voice to
ring over the land You know in your soul what
you must do And so-help-me-god this is
all I ask of you Be by my side, whatever
the outcome To me it won’t matter what
they become If you are there marching
with me Leaving anger and arguments
be No more tears will I shed For happiness are in their
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