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Just Another Lesbian Love Song by ~paintedqueer:iconpaintedqueer:



This is just another lesbian love song
Just another group of words with a lackluster tune
So you can sit and listen, you can wonder what I'm on
To think that I got a chance of speaking up in this room.

This is not the tired over-done story
Of a sudden shocking self-realization
She wasn't the first girl I could see,
And our love was never a startling one.

There was no big fight with our parents
There was no scandal at school
That really wouldn't have made any sense-
All this girl-kiss-girl is nothing new.

So this was normal for people like me
It was average for people like us
There's really not too much to say or see-
But we were two girls in love, and that's enough

There just seem to be all of these love songs
Where guy meets girl and they fall in love
I just want one to show that our love's not wrong-
That isolated closet's not enough.

Yeah, this is just another lesbian love song
Same boring story about dyke-meets-dyke
This is just another lesbian love song
In case you wanted to know what girllove was like.
©2005-2009 ~paintedqueer
:iconpaintedqueer:

Author's Comments

If I actually had any sort of voice, I'd actually write a tune for this. As it is, it's just a poem where some of teh rythym is slightly off, since it's meant to be read aloud.

Wrote it after becoming frustrated at all the books and stuff out there that were all about how difficult it was to come out or anything-I'm not saying it's not difficult, but, jeez, can we have some stories where it's not that big a deal?
Ironically, the focus of this poem is the lesbianism-which is exactly what I was complaining about for the other stories. Huh. Never really thought about that. But it's more of a thing saying "shut up, I don't carfe and I say it's normal."

I was a little hesitant about the last stanza-more specifically, the second line of it. I'm not personally offended by the word dyke unless it's used as a derogatory term, but I can understand why some people would be like "murgh hate you" about it. Maybe it's different since I've never specifically been called it (well, I'm sur eI have, but I haven't been called it and found out about it.), so I just don't feel a strong aversion to it. However, this was teh third re-write of that stanza, and the first two would have been fulfilling the stereotype of "lesbian"-short hair, baggy clothes/plaid, etc. And, hey, jsut becaus eI personally tend to fill that role doesn't mean that all queer girls do.

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:iconsadistic-soul:
I absolutely love this. Good work. Keep it up.

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~ *Turns into a purple grasshopper and buries acorns for winter* ~
:iconpaintedqueer:
Thank you!

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I fight The Man by buying from The Establishment.
:iconbowlsofrain:
Aww. Really realistic. Off-beat rhyme and grammar-wise, perhaps, but the point definitely gets across nicely. I always try/want to write stuff like this. ;) :)
:iconpaintedqueer:
Thanks!
Yeah...there's a reason I try not to write too much poetry. I'm glad you pointed that out; showed you really read the piece as opposed to skimming it.

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I fight The Man by buying from The Establishment.
:iconedgyveggie:
Is this what it was actually like for you?
I like it, it's begging for a tune honey, you gotta go for it!

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[Goldfish]
:iconpaintedqueer:
It's partially accurate, I suppose; my parents took it fairly well, and my school had been informing me loudly for around two years that I liked girls. The important part, though, about loving a girl, isn't true for me; I actually DID have that one girl who I fell for terribly hard, and it was kind of a shocking thing for me.
But my voice breaks windows and minds! And I'm not sure how I'd go about actually composing one, anyway.

Thanks!

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I fight The Man by buying from The Establishment.
:iconruby-sting:
:D nicely put

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changing the world one smile at a time :pride:
:iconpaintedqueer:
Thank you!

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I fight The Man by buying from The Establishment.
:iconmindless-pixie:
nice.. :)
Think it'd make a cool song :D hehe

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Of all the things I've lost... I miss my mind teh most.
:iconmaddymat:
i enjoyed it good job :)

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Life is like a photograph, creative, new, informative, attractive, sad, happy, depressed, old, wierd, concious, inconcious, vibrant, reflective. ~Mat

A photo can say a thousand words but the real story is that of what the photo is of. ~Mat

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