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Apr 27
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Mozzerelli

lgbtq day of silence

today i am silent 
for you, for her 
for them. 
i am silent for all
the love that has been silenced. 
today 
i can love who i choose 
no matter their “sex”,
my grandfather did not have the same privilege. 
he was forced to hide
to conceal the most intimate and 
defining part of who he was. 
even worse, 
he used hate against those just like him
as if to try and fight 
something that deep down,
he cannot change. 
what many fail to understand 
is that love is about the soul
the mind
the actions
so much more than it is about 
what boxes society forces you into.
 
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    Apr 27, 2018

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