Gillespie, Ian

English

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Sprinkle: An undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies | Vol. 10, 2017 -11-  Creative Submission: I Return to the Place I Ran From  By Ian Gillespie   I return to the place I ran from Back to that blasted heath, where the sky has lost its color Where I see those few fallen friends Still waiting for me Their broken bodies still bearing the weight of the hatred placed on them.  I see my brother and my sister Those imperfect allies And love them and know them And they know and love me. They are not as holy As our kith and kin. They were not tempered in the same forge And Mine was different from theirs.  I embrace my artificer My opposition Who loves only what he thinks he sees But abhors who I truly am. Like his father and his mother All of them cool with holy water Sanctified by ‘holy’ individuals.  They railed against me and ridiculed me unknowingly thinking that it was friendly fire laying wastes to parts of me that are deep and sacred And so Sprinkle: An undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies | Vol. 10, 2017 -12-    I ran and I ran and I ran. And I became strong and I became beautiful And I have returned here now, to reclaim this heath To reestablish my place And I shall renew this land And I shall bring the light and the spectrum with it And much will grow where once was death And we shall be able to come out and that That cavalcade of color and of wonder and of magic And I shall call it home And it shall be my PRIDE.   

Creative Submission: I Return to the Place I Ran From

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Creative Submission: I Return to the Place I Ran From

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