the right to be me: poem
This poem speaks volumes about the constant struggle that alot of Gay men and women go through everyday.
the right to be me
- I’m forever hiding in secrecy
- the feelings lurking inside of my head.
- For if they knew, no-one would let me be
- the person I want to be. If I said
- that they would accept me, I’d be lying.
- They cannot see how I do what I do.
- So they shout abuse and leave me crying
- myself to sleep. But in dreams I go to
- a place where I’m free to be as I please,
- and where all the things I want, I have got.
- And where my acceptance comes with an ease
- that’s only possible in dreams. I’m not
- fighting for justice or equality.
- I’m just fighting for the right to be me.








