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Just A Few Things That I Ain’t
It is a different decade and dimension,and I am mindful of what may lie outside of my window,so I simply do not look. I remember running from my reflection,making wishes on every available star for her freedom,watching the world worry less, soften and mind their business,but by the time my race was over,another cycle had…
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Can Dartford’s First Pride Heal The Wounds Left By The Shame of Sandy Bruce-Lockhart?
After decades of keeping the LGBT+ community a secret, the town I live in is having it’s first Pride. Organised by the Orchard Theatre in partnership with Dartford Borough Council, the event is much needed, and long overdue. I live about twenty minutes away from the tiny village I spent much of my childhood in,…
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A Little Something For The Straight Man Who Haunts The Only Gay Bar In Town, Looking For Me
I am behind bars at the bar,parading myself like a prize at the fair,but my intended audience is never there,just this one guy, with grey hair and grey skin who always wants to buy me drinks,fumbles his fingers across my pendant and mumbles pedantic, pretentious nonsense about how his soul is pink,printed with my name,and…
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How Insensitive
Each setting of the sun,minute and moment brings me closer to you.I can feel the fire of your arrival,itching underneath my skin,and though I’m still lost in my lonely lullabies,fast asleep by the time the day begins,I wake up when I feel your hand in mine,every time,without fail. You’re on the way,and I don’t know…