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Walk with Pride

Marc Livanos a/k/a Panhandle Poet

I admire her honesty,
judgment, restraint.

I look up to her,
never averting my eyes.

She’s looked up to
but questioned.

Family says
come out, tell all.

Homosexual ways
need be declared.

Intimacies
should be known.

Sexual practices
must be judged.

How’s that
your business?

Loving oneself is straight,
not a direction.

Protected by law,
if not family, I pray:

in due time
in due time

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