Parents Lie

Your parents will say they love you

No matter what

Until you’re gay.

Your parents love you

And you are their pride and joy.

They just can’t wait for the day you

Grow up

And get married and

Have their grandkids.

When you turn 16, you decide

To tell them your secret.

They will love you endlessly,

Right?

They tell you it's just a phase and

If you don’t get over it, they’ll

Kick you out. You don't get over it.

They expel you with just the clothes on your back.

Now, you are a part of the 40% of LGBT youth

Homelessness.

No money, no food, no one to care for you.

You’re considering ending it all. The

Thing is, it wasn't the first time.

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

And on the sixth time, you decide that it’s time.

You find a piece of broken glass

And go sit under the tree where you and your dad

Used to read books to one another.

You see blood flooding out of you from your slitted wrists

And feel no regrets. No one loves you anymore.

So what do you have to live for? In your mind,

Absolutely nothing at all.

You are now a part of the 40% of LGBT suicides.

This is what it’s like. Let’s call it,

The 6 stages of being gay.

1: Realization that your parents expect you to be what you aren’t.

2: Fear that they will hate you.

3: Sadness because your parents don’t believe what you claim to be

4: Depression.

5: Suicide.

6: Happiness