I used to be lesbian
Let me explain
I use to look at girls in a particular way
Where I could imagine her in the conclusion of each page
Man, I loved women
I used to tease them,
taste them,
feel them,
love them,
fuck them…
I liked all the different shapes of a woman
See, I used to be lesbian
Walk the streets and get defeated by his construction of living life
I used to listen to his thoughts
So I know that every time I walk by
His already undressed me,
and I’d get home and question what he sees
I used to be lesbian
In fact my first heart break was with a woman
And I didn’t know how to handle it so
I became a heart breaker
just so that I could see how others were dealing with the intensity you feel when you’ve lost the love
you thought was the one
Until I found another kind of love
So intense I was afraid to hold her
because I knew I’d be singing songs of eternity
I used to be lesbian
Until one night that tragedy happened to me
And I never saw it coming
I was pinned to the floor
Forced to kiss the ground
it was him…him ontop of me
I was gasping to scream
But his dick couldn’t let me
He was whispering his imaginary scriptures to me
I used to be lesbian
until I looked into his eyes
And saw a beast a site that could never be God’s creation…
this was the work of satan
My cry was his motivational speech
So I laid there in silence
To withstand the violence
And my soul had already left me
I used to be lesbian
But when he left me
I cuddled a big rock
Mother nature was the nearest woman
I could find warmth in
I used to be lesbian
but now my final words
Are on a tomb stone
Because he showed me the power of a man
And I could never love that
So I killed myself because
I knew that I could never stand corrected
It wasn’t one of Shakespeare’s tragedies
This was no love story
I used to be lesbian
But in heaven God said
We are not defined by titles
So now I live as a woman that loves…
© Andiswa Dlamini
09/2013
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