National Coming Out Day – Imagine

Hello everyone;

I did say "haphazardly" participating in the April PAD Challenge. This is why day one is being posted after day two.
Day 1 prompt of "write an optimistic poem"

Not Dead Yet, Me

Is it really such a tragedy
that my sentences are raggedy
words tread together by similarity?
The conversation is still defiantly
expressions of me.

Is it really such a travesty
that I wander aimlessly?
When I can travel through time so easily
…our life history
…a life lived outrageously.

Is it really such a disparity
that I have forgotten the melody
of your name? Still there’s some clarity….
I know the feelings of family
and passions intensity.

Is it really such an indignity
that something once familiar is now a novelty.
Or that simple tasks escape me.
I still dance to life’s jamboree
and sing majestically.

Is it really such a finality
even as I become more absentee?
There is plenty of life in my legacy.
Don’t bother writing my eulogy,
when there’s still time to create a memory.

©2024 Delaina Miller

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So I wrote this poem Imagine to celebrate diversity.

I hope you enjoy
Thanks for reading!
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Imagine

the air silent
of a chickadee’s …deedeedee
because we had
the cardinal to sing

crickets mimicking
mating cicadas in July
because they had to
procreate

belittling a jicama
for not being apple sweet
then buying radishes instead.

Imagine

if the moon
dressed in robes of gold

or the sun
preferred a silvery cloak

would we shut out their light
to prove them queer?

Imagine please

living as we are
not looking at all
we were not.

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