One Day

One Day

Coming out is never easy to do

You have to pick the right way for you

Coming out is never easy to say

So hard to tell your family that you are gay.

Some people grow up thinking it is wrong

Never knowing where they belong

Others grow up knowing it’s alright

Never giving up and ready to fight.

To fight for the freedom to love who they wish

To fight through the pain and the anguish

To fight for the right to be treated the same

This is real life people, this isn’t a game.

If this was a game it would be easy to erase

The memories of name calling

The beatings, the hate!

If this was a game it would be easy to end

You could turn off a switch

And the game would suspend.

But it isn’t a game, it is real life you see

And the hate and the name calling, it has happened to me

But I stood tall, it was the right thing to do

I rose above it and you can too.

The journey won’t be easy

There’ll be bumps in the road

The discrimination won’t stop completely

There’s still a long way to go

But we must stick together and continue to fight

Knowing that changes won’t happen over night.

We must persevere and aim for the goal

To win back our rights, which the haters have stole

We must stand tall and be counted

And be prepared at the front line

There’s a future at stake

And it’s yours and mine.

I hope that one day we’ll look back and see

A world with less hate for people like you and me

A world with less pain and suffering too

A world filled with love for me and for you.