Rejecting Their Color Palette
My Coming Out Story
Pink!
plus sign on the pregnancy test
and later, after the ultrasound,
pink!
balloons, and onesies, and pretty
coral
blankets to swaddle me in.
Pink!
mouth stuffed full with cotton
candy and bubble gum.
Easter dress
yellow,
kiss a fellow, why so
blue,
little girl? Smile more.
White!
wedding dress, Barbie dreams come
true in an exchange of
gold
rings. Never-beginning and never-ending,
I am handed from one man in
black
to another. Exchanged and sealed away
safe! from this dangerous world.
Black
moods. Why the dull,
black
moods, dear? Why do you sit
in shadows and think inky thoughts
never laid to rest? Smile! with your
white
teeth for the camera.
Grays
blur as decades pass. She’s become
translucent. The
pink baby, the woman in the
white dress, the
translucent,
shadowed wife.
RED!!!
RAGE, tear it all apart.
Start over, grab for the
rainbow.
Don’t let go. Never let go.
Every color is yours this time.
About the Creator
S.L. Black
S.L. Black lives in sunny California where she lives as a romance author by day and a late-blooming lesbian by night. Plot twist, right? Lol. Life throws you curve-balls sometimes but it definitely makes for a fascinating ride.
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