This poem i wrote yesterday in my Women's Healing Arts Poetry class and was inspired by Langston Hughes poem, 'I, Too, Sing America'.
i Am Queer & An American Citizen
by Adele Sakler
i am an American citizen.
i am the queer citizen.
They tell me i'm a 2nd-class citizen
by the way they take my rights away
by mob majority votes.
i laugh in the face of adversity as
i keep up the fight,
though i get weary
Will tomorrow bring freedom
and equality
Like it did for women and African Americans?
One day i will be a first-class citizen, equal and on par
with every other law-abiding, tax paying citizen.
Nobody will keep this queer American down!
Copyright 10 February 2010 by Adele L. Sakler
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