“Brave Enough to Be Ourselves”
By Pi and Zee
We are born into this world
Free, so to speak
Free from self-consciousness
Not yet bound
By restrictions,
Expectations on who to love or
Predetermined definitions of who we are
When we, ourselves, are on the road to discovering
In search of that which might not be definable
Because one awakening leads to another
Tangling into the intricacies of you and me
Caught up in a web
You, me, we
We are all bound together
Seemingly different,
Some driven by fear
To hate that which they do not understand
If only they could see
Love is our common denominator
We are only human after all
Though we should never forget our history
Because life comes with its privileges
Let us undo the assumptions,
The prejudice
Let us learn to walk in each other’s shoes
To see the world from different eyes
Open our horizons
Let us open our hearts and begin to listen
We are so much more than what they say a “boy” or “girl” ought to be
We express ourselves so much more broadly than
Any boxes set for us
Our true selves will break free of society’s cages
And in this world
Though others may try to contain our love
And who we can and cannot love
Repression breeds resistance
Time and again we will defy any barriers imposed on us
Because love knows no bounds
We are you and you are us
We are your mothers, your fathers
Your sisters, your brothers
Your friends, your neighbors
The workers all around you
You are not alone
When the rain falls
it doesn’t fall on one person’s house
Your pain is our pain
But it doesn’t get better unless we work together
To build a new society
One where we learn to love ourselves and others for who we are
Differences are what make us special and unique
No more separate but equal
No more silencing our voices
The truth will set us free
Though we should all have the right to love
And to be ourselves
We have to fight for that right
Reclaim the beautiful richness of our identities
Because we come in all shapes, sizes, and shades
Let us not be used to wage their unjust wars upon our own
Let us fight alongside each other
In this society of profit over people
To invert the triangle
And take back our humanity