#2372 -- how do we hold a rainbow up?

 

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how do we hold a rainbow up?

poem for Pride Day

 

there’s music and there are pictures

an amazing selection of words

 

these have all come out of the rainbow

without them where would we be?

 

comedy!

who’s had us laugh all this while?

 

then here’s the gospel of unharm

howsabout everyone just gets to be who they are?

 

it’s not quite no questions asked

but just accept, accept

 

the who I am and where I’m from

not so hard

 

bigots come all shapes, all colours

all of them have to be shamed

 

we’re responsible for our own beliefs

but

do we get to decide what / who / if we’ll eat?

 

rare as a rainbow

what’s left of the weather

often a breeze will have flags away 

 

stick with a pot of gold for us all

but be assured there’s no end

 

but plenty to party on

something for everyone

 

some ask ‘can I myself be remarkable?’

fact is you already are