Finding Freedom

(photo from The Guardian, Eyewitness)

The country criminalized me yesterday

My identity has been brought to shame

All that I did was to fall in love

But he and me cannot share a name

Love is the only feeling I have known

Fingers have always been pointed at me

Just tell me what wrong I have done

What is that my eyes refuse to see

My parents don't accept me as their son

Like I never existed, they threw me away

I found my family and meaning in him

I call us happy but they call us gay

Everybody I know look down upon me

I am bound by piercing invisible claws

I am only looking to survive in this world

But they do not let me, with their laws

This is the only place I find my freedom

These innocent birds understand my plight

They come and eat out of my hands

Making me forget my inner fight

They listen to my tales all day

They nod and fly to calm me down

When I'm faced by rejection elsewhere

Here they treat me like I wear the crown

My love left me to live a life of denial

He couldn't bear to deal with this pain

I'm left alone to deal with melancholy

Suddenly falling in love feels like a bane

These sea gulls are all I have now

They are helping me to recuperate and cope

I know a new life is waiting for me

Watching them flying free, gives me hope

Written for The Magpie Tales: Mag 197.

P.S: I shall put up the other parts of Maya soon. It just won't be continuous though.

~ Soumya