How many of us
Are fighting
Just by existing?
Just by working
In the grit & dirt;
Scarred skin
Slicked with sweat
Given in dedication & service.
How many of us
Feel forbidden love,
Have forbidden spiritual beliefs,
Hold forbidden political views?
How many of us
Wait, pray, hope, dream
Of the day
When the acid chains
Will dissolve?
When we can stand proud
And say in unison
"On my honor..."
Walter Beck is from Avon, IN and is a graduate student at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN where he is heavily involved in the GLBTQ activist community both as an independent activist and with groups such as Equality Speaks and Wabash Valley Pride. He is also a mainstay in the emerging Terre Haute poetry scene where his intense verse and performances draw crowds and criticism at such venues as Coffee Grounds, the Halycion Art Gallery and the Sycamore Lounge at ISU. He is a long-time camp staffer at the historic Boy Scout camp, Camp Krietenstein in Center Point, IN where he is Camp Commissioner and the Poet Laureate of Camp Krietenstein.
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