Just one word By Sabrina Lopez

Watch the bridges

Crawl and curl

Under…over

Forcibly black and white

Letters hidden within the cracks

Of cold, grey stones

That never melt

Now watch her hands

Buried, searching

Where’s her label?

Throats swell with fear

No not that one…please

If she could just find the right letters

Under this umbrella

Swallowing, hungry

While they avoid cool eyes

Seas of silence

I can’t just be one word

But they say…

She can’t love her

He can’t release her

She can’t be him

He can’t touch him

So you have to be

Rivers that dance deep

With tiny squares of society’s box

So slip inside with everyone else

For acceptance that will never come

No doors, no windows

You can never fit whole

I dare you to find a way out

Because there isn’t one

You see

She can’t run too fast

Without falling over the bridges

That flow

Just like she should...

Just like we should

Art piece by Gelila Lulseged