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Questioning
Do I offend you
Do I disgust you
Do I make you want to vomit
Do I make you want to puke
Do I scare you
Do I look sick
Do I look like cancer
Do you want to eradicate me
Do you want to find a cure
Do you think I am scared of you
Do I seem like a mutation
Do you think I am a disease
Do I act contagious and malignant
Do you think you are the only one who has called me a disease
Do you think you are original
Do you think I have not learned how to fight
Do you think I am killing my host with my cancer
Do you think I am a murderer
Do you look at me like you would look at a murderer
Do I look like a perversion
Do you tell your children I am a perversion
Do you want to slam me again into the same category as porn and prostitution and drugs
Do you know the difference between love, prostitution, porn and drugs
Do you watch porn, do drugs and hire prostitutes because you want to understand love
Does love scare you
Do you know what love is
Do you love anybody
Do you love your children
Do you love your children enough to make sure I do not to infect them with my disease
Do you love your children
Do you love your child
Do you love your infected child
Do you love me because I am your child
Do you love me because I am your daughter
Do you love me even though I am sick
Do you love me even though I am being devoured inside and out
Do you love me because I am your blood
Do you love me at all
Do I dare question your love
Do I dare contemplate these questions in my sleep
Do I dare sleep
Do I dare dream
Do I dare hope
Do I dare wish
No
Because I am a disease
Because I am a mutation
Because I am incurable
Because I cannot be fixed
Because I cannot be unbroken
Because I do not want to be fixed
Because I love her
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I was going through a rough time period when I wrote this poem in terms of finding acceptence towards my sexuality and I wrote it out of anger and fustration. Most of the the questions in this poem are things that have acually been said to me and writing this poem was my way of expressing the impact it had on the views myself and how I think some people percieve me.