WORDS OF THE LIVING

(GAY)

Left a note on her desk
Folded it twice
Saying "I love her, she's the best"
Asked my friends for advice

Hushed voices, backward glances
Laughing teens
Sitting in classes
Skinny jeans

Looking over at her
Long hair
Time a blur
As I secretly stare

She opens the note
Looks back at me
As a sound escapes her friend's throat
Gay!! I desperately try to free
The laughs and curses follow me
Stride after stride
Destroying my pride

But the girl has returned
She says, "cinema, me and you?"
I thought I'd been spurned...
You feel the same way too?
"Yeah", she says

And she puts her hand in hers

Just like other crushes
Except this one was between two girls
Same hot flushes
Only both wore curls
It that different after all
As they walk together
Down the hall

Her pride restored
She has the girl she adored