KarMel Scholarship 2007

 

 “Sweet Surrender”

By Angel-Marie Cloukey

 

 

Desciption of Submission: Poem about lesbian relationships and how it's not about gender its about the heart.

 

I hear the laughter vividly

I feel the burning eyes

I taste the hatred on their breath

It burns like salt and ice

I see them watch my every move

Each step I ever take

The way they mutter and they glare

And wait for me to break

But they can try to drag me down

I’ll go down screaming pride

I will not be a tragedy

Or turn my back and hide

It’s not about between her legs

It’s not about her hips

It’s not about the ‘blasphemy’

No, she makes my heart skip

Sometimes I can’t remember

How to breathe when she’s around

And when I hear her voice

I start shaking to the sound

It’s all about the way she laughs

The way she holds my hand

Heaven’s waiting in her arms

She’s like the Promised Land

So watch me, mutter, glare and hate

It’s not about her gender

I cannot stop my heart from feeling

Such a sweet surrender.

 

 

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