Uncharted (The Cartographer)
Teenager in Nineties Britain, always had in my hand
a pencil to make drawings, to help me understand,
the world I was born into, which felt like foreign land,
my homosexuality was not what they had planned
Me drawing in a straight world, but mine was gay instead,
I made drawings in secret, hid them under my bed
I drew the world I longed for, imagined in my head,
I wished my world where men loved men was not in graphite lead.
M.C. Newberry
Fri 5th Jul 2024 19:25
Short and sharp...and all the more potent for it. Agree with SG about that last line while wondering if "graphic" might have
effectively replaced "graphite".