Jane Eyre• Show poetry

My name's Jenn and I normally write poetry to get my thoughts in order when I'm having trouble dealing with something. My passion is theatre production, I love building and painting sets and basically being up to my elbows in goop all in the name of theatre .
I love my friends and I don't know what I would do without them, they basically keep me sane, I love you guys!


HOMOPHOBIA IS WRONG

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.

*Repost this in your jounal if you believe homophobia is wrong.*

***********My favorite Poem: Sonnet XVII
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.




***A few of my favorite quotes

"When I look at you, I'm home"
-Dory, "Finding Nemo"

"I'm Really starting to love the back of your head."
-Patch, "Patch Adams"


men are like a deck of cards:

a heart to luv em

a diamond to marry em

a club to bash his fucking head in

and a spad to bury him
~I don't know who said this

"You have a brilliant mind, don't ever sell yourself short"
-Mr. M. Fanning

"I have a library of useless information and I'm proud of it!"
-Me lol

"That's why darling it's incredible that someone so unforgetable thinks that I am unforgetable too."
-Unforgettable-Nat King Cole

"Stop asking God to bless things, look for the things that God has done because they're already blessed"
~Bono