Swimming Against The Tide

It's a piece of work about gender minorities, that is, the LGBTQ community on how they are still considered as minorities and the human rights suppressed.

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Look!

Keep looking

Keep Looking for the light

I’m used being an outcast

I’m used being the freak

Things you may feel are helpful

May be hurtful

Hurtful rules you’ve created

Ringleader of the feebleminded

Those are your rules

Rules for keeping the chaos at bay

A conniving mouth

The hatred you have over me

And I am the sick one?

I’m terribly conflicted

Here comes the crocodile tears

Your desire to be cruel to your fellow man

A man such as myself

Me and the others

In my soul I’ve known them always

Their names give me firmness

Look!

Don’t ponder

Just do it

Keep looking for the light

It’s an opportunity

An opportunity for all of us to grow

If you hedge I will know

If you trick me I will know

It’s my duty to stay vital

It’s your duty to look for the light

The people looking for the light will survive

With the light, humanity will survive

There is humanity in you

I see it

Humanity to let me be

Be who I really want to be

By Thami Magongo

From: Eswatini

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