Life student

I am a life student

Learning excites me

I only get bored if I have to repeat something I already know

But then

I learn more

Still work to be done

I was born at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic

Trans folk were vilified

You could smoke in malls

I grew up in the during the birth of the internet

Pedro opened a whole lot of people’s eyes

So did Rodney King 

I’m living in the 21st century and we still don’t have 

Flying cars

Or a council of elders

Or world peace

Things we were promised

Things we worked so hard for

Forced to endure the oppression 

And erasure

From one specific group

The gold standard for all of us

Every nation has one

The perceived superiors 

And every nation has those of us

Who will work against the self made personalities

Of destruction

For equality

For love

We cannot be erased 

There are more of us than there are of them

Partners

I know that I know nothing

So teach me

Educate me 

Help me transcend my beliefs 

Beliefs I’ve held onto

Unnecessarily 

For far to long

Help me understand that it’s okay to let go

To wake up

To rise above fear

Save space for me when I feel like I’m losing mind

Set me free if you evolve faster

I’ll catch up

State of the union

And now it’s here

The time we’ve waited months for

Warm summer nights

Where we can sleep naked 

With the windows open

The world smells alive again

Fresh

Green

The sun kisses our skin until it blushes

And for a moment

We forgot what snow was

Did we have an early spring this year

Was the groundhog right

All anyone seems to know right now is 

Suffering