Lovely Penguin

Tbis is a poem about waiting, about how it feels to anticipate, with both excitement, sadness, interest and pain. It’s not so much that I wrote this poem for someone, it’s important to me because it helps me realize how easy it is to lose yourself when you have unanswered questions. Ironically, it’s writing poetry that seems to anchor me the most, so here’s to that.
by marie gordon

this is me floating
belly-up in my pool
wondering

drifting like I do now
between hoping for
needing none

this is my question
for you if you ever
read this page

you will know that
i wrote this poem to you
and to ask…

when I left for home
you said to me I’d hear
from you soon

it wouldn’t surprise
but it would disappoint
to not hear

i wouldn’t be sad
perhaps a bit confused
i’ve waited…

if you didn’t mean
just what you said to me
why say it?

just because I was
maybe a bit too kind
maybe bold

Just say to me now
only the truest things
honest truth
nothing else will do

somehow I enjoy
this anticipation
just because it’s real

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by Marie Gordon

It started
When I knew
When I was sure

Lesbian girl
Praying for a
Hetero love

Catholic faith
Believing God
Trusting Him

Funny story
What I wished for
What I asked for

Silent thoughts drift
Over realities
Waiting, waiting

I suppose now
Because I did
Wait for that day

That I got it
Or maybe I
Believed I did

Funny story
But that’s enough
To satisfy

My truth isn’t
Hetero love
Homophobic

No tags on me
Not lesbian
Not hetero

I suppose now
That all along
It’s what I needed
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