I learned that it is easy to be the only one to raise my hand And say that I like a man I never knew, but who sounds terrible In everyone else’s eyes It is so easy to judge and hate and live on the black line Of yes or no, hot or cold, wrong and right When we really live in the void The space full of maybes, and in betweens Where I can be radiant, and cry Where I can break your heart and hug you You can compliment and ignore her Between the teeth of the comb, where everything is straight And on the outside, we are all bent and frizz One man can change a nation years after he dies And I want to change the world every minute I am alive I want you to open your eyes as wide as mine Look around this world, and tell me what you see Because I’ve had enough of you talking with your eyes closed Shut up and see See that I can be in love, too, even though you won’t let me marry That we all don’t have a gender Some of us are scared, and we need you to stand up for us We can play dress up without breaking the rules Even when someone can’t use their legs, they can stand up And face the world, and you aren’t anybody to tell them no So don’t try to When you see somebody who appears differently than you Be that in their skin color, dress, facial expression, movement You don’t put them in a box, because boxes are for things you aren’t looking at And you should always be looking and asking and learning Even when you are not in school, you should be questioning Change doesn’t mean good or bad, change means different Which means not like right now, or before So let’s make all our changes improvements Let’s take all of these people out of our boxes And start conversations, start smiling and listening Sharing what we have, even when we don’t have it Being strong enough to know when we need to be lifted up And weak enough to wait for whoever is finishing last Because if we don’t carry our histories with us We will never learn how to improve upon our future And I want to give you best future we can have. | 
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