2016

Donald Trump helped me find my inner self

He held my head down to the gravel and said prove yourself

And I threw his hands off of me and said I’m gay, I’m a woman, and I work in sales this isn’t two truths and a lie, get comfortable with every part of my presence
He told me that no one matters, but white upper class conservative men

And I said they are my people, but they do not represent all of my people

He said liberals were too loud

And I grabbed a microphone and explained what it meant to be a human

Donald Trump took my parents away from me

He told them I didn’t matter and they took his side

I looked him in the eyes and said you make me believe in the devil

Addendum

Mike Pence said f**k you to my community and we said f**k you back

He said I’m a “Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,”

And I said you’ve created prejudice, gave hate a face and signed your name at the bottom of the declaration of racism, sexism, and homophobia

In no particular order

You are the poster child for my traumatic childhood

The short story to why I have a hard time connecting with conservatives

Part of me wishes I could erase your name from future children’s history books,

But the other part of me wants your story to be told through memes

Donald Trump and Mike Pence are the villains of memories

The Adam and Eve to our twisted story book

The Kim and Kanye of our biggest fears

Don’t mind me while I sit here and wait for your divorce to headline

I’ll be patient

And when they finally step down from their fantasy version of an America filled with bigotry

We will stand up louder

And while I say thank you,

You left a legacy of hate followed by an army of pain

We need time to heal

And we will heal

I have healed

And I have another reason to fight