Pride Walk
Walk this path hand in hand
Where your colors run with blood and pride
Where every part of your life is a part built with blood, sweat, and tears
Where love courts fear in breathless perfection
Where abnormality marries natural instinct with seamless fusion
And the dance of life plays out in the stars burning in your lovers' eyes.
Walk in the field of memories
Where blood has fertilized every leaf of every tree
Has caressed every weather-worn rock
And is some unforseeable part of every unborn drop of water coursing through the streams.
Sing in the lines
Where you may never see the ones you love again
Laying bricks and mortar for those to come
Those who will seek shelter in this crumbling refuge
Those who will fortify the walls that stand the storms and shocks of time.
Come...
Come to dance with the deer in the field before the hunters
Laughing gleefully in fear and rage
With those yearning for acceptance
And those screaming defiance as they charge the barricades that may slaughter them
Or let them through.
Hold your head high and proud
As the sea of preconceived rationality and social normality
Beats you bloody
Beats you ragged
Beat you weary and tired and sick and worn
And then turns back for more as your blood and tears and defiance stains a crimson sea
With the colors of the rainbow
Seeking only
Seeking always
Peace, acceptance, equality.
