14.

My Trappéd Heart

My heart is a cage of hardened steel
My love lies held in chains
Behind those thick steel bars

With chains of fear
With chains of worry
Formed and moulded by endless years
Of hatred for my kind

The work of the homophobes shows
In those knotted black chains
Keeping my from loving
Keeping me from living

The bars are restraints I’ve made myself
To stop their hate at me
I cannot show the love in my heart
I cannot live my one true life

Why this hatred at how I love?