I Miss You. for TDoR.

[Laura J]

"I miss you"

I miss you..
The day seems darker,
Because you're gone.

My heart it cries..
Remembering your smile,
knowing your laugh is now quiet..

I'm frightened..
Scared for my brothers and sisters,
That they're laugh might be quieted too.

I never met you in person..
Yet somehow I knew you,
Your struggles, heartaches and pain..

I cheered for you to live happy and free..
To feel like the person you were meant to be,
But hate and ignorance had other plans..

You were needlessly killed before your time..
Brutally, senselessly, and for no other reason,
Than you were just simply you..

But your absence somehow gives me strength..
Strength to stand and share your dreams,
In my own way, the way I also was created..

I take this day, and live it for you..
To make you all proud, and give your life meaning,
To make every one of you know you are loved and never forgotten..

Poem by Mark,
in tribute to Transgender Day of Remembrance, today...

[Deleted]

Beautiful Mark! I can't count the number of times I have stood at the reading of all of those names, and the list is growing longer year after year.

[Ayla]

Mark

Thank you so much for this poem. Simply beautiful.

Safe travels

Aisla

[Deleted]

Love it Mark. Thank you.

[Donna Troy]

That was simply beautiful, i wish i could write that well *hugs* .

[Laura J]

Thank you very much...

Hopefully we will not need poems like this someday.....