KarMel
Scholarship 2007
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“Just the Way She Was” By Sabrina
Diz |
Desciption of Submission: Poem Lesbian Coming Out
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Just The Way She Was There was a shell of a
girl Which everyone liked Her smile lived in her
eyes Even though her mouth
didn’t curve A fragile thing lived
inside her Which she couldn’t let out But everyone loved her Just the way she was She lived in fear of the
people That surrounded her
everyday The ones that hugged her And the ones that held her
up for display The people that said
they’d be there If she needed them to cry
on If she needed them Friends to talk to The day that brought the
sun After a long harsh winter Was the day she decided To let everyone know At first she told her
parents Those two that worried And couldn’t figure out Why she didn’t smile They raged and they
ravaged Insulted and abused Scrambled for doctors And said she was confused Then she told her friends Who she knew would
understand Their blank faces told
more Than the faces they later
made They snickered and they
whispered Ignored her calls and her
pleas Said terrible things about
her To whoever else would hear Alone in her room, staring
out the window At a sunny, cloudless day She knew it would all be
better A smile crept on her face |