They caught a glimpse
Of our rainbow-hued world
The way we breathed more easily
By being here together
How our eyes reflected the glitter of drag
In irridescent tears
How our voices threw off the ever-present caution
We assume in other company
How our laughter bounced off the walls
While we danced through the night
How we wrote our stories in bright chalk
When we knew they were temporary
(They walk over them the next day
To erase our words as always)
This is all we have, an evening hidden by careful description
A morning hour carved from someone else’s time
A piece of pavement borrowed from a storefront
Still we remain
We are here
And we don’t care if you get used to us
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