Does it worry you now? <br />It did not before, <br />When you did not know, <br />Why now? <br /> <br />What triggered your reaction? <br />Who pulled the switch? <br />Was it you, or society <br />Who condemned me? <br /> <br />Did you think? <br />Or was it a “reflex of training”? <br />Did you do what was expected, <br />What you thought was expected, <br />Or just what you thought? <br /> <br />Yeah, we were friends. <br />We used to laugh, <br />At times we even cried. <br />Yeah, we had fun. <br /> <br />And we started to trust, <br />We started to talk, <br />You of you <br />And I of me. <br /> <br />You changed then, <br />What happened? <br />Was your circle broken <br />Was your world upset? <br /> <br />What happened to us? <br />What happened <br />When you found out I was different <br />Than what you had conceived? <br /> <br />Could you please explain, <br />Was it all just a game, my friend, <br />There inside your mind? <br /> <br />You always told me “Be Myself” <br />You told me we were friends. <br />Then you flung me from your world, <br />I did not fit in. <br />No I didn’t understand that day, <br />The hate clear in your eyes, <br />And I knew that we were friends no more, <br />When I told you I was gay. <br /> <br /> <br />Written February 6,1984<br /><br />Sandra Osborne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-happened/
