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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. 

 

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 3rd Jul 2024 08:47

A tremendous last line, Lee. Well written.

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