Silencing minorities or inappropriate?

Kealey 🚨👮🏼🍝🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 • Demi- Pansexual • wannabe randi • meatball head • Ex- Jehovah's Witness • Pro-CHOICE • pro-drugs • GAD & Depression • 16 years old • Polite Canadian until you piss me off •

So for English this year we started with the poem unit (FYI I HATE poetry). And I wrote a poem on being gay and what some gay people go through. As y'all probably know I'm pansexual. My teacher blatantly REFUSED to put my poem on the wall with everyone else's. He didn't give me a reason other than it's "inappropriate". Here's the poem:

Beatings and screaming

Tears streaming down your face

Punished for being attracted to guys

Something you didn’t choose

Why do you have to be this way?

People hate on you for who you love

You hate yourself for loving them

You hide yourself

Hurt yourself

Why do you have to be this way?

Your friends are gone

Your families screaming,

“It’s just a phase”

Nobody understands

After all, they’re not gay

Why do you have to be this way?

“God will send you to hell”

They scream

Getting louder each time they speak

You can’t take it!

Why do you have to be this way?

You scream and cry in anguish

Until they push too hard

They push you off the edge

This is the only way

Why do you have to be this way?

You fall

The wind screaming relief in your ears

You’re flying

The ground getting closer

Why did you have to be this way?

One last breath

THUD!

You’re gone, gone from the prejudice

You’re safe, there’s no more pain

Why did you have to be gay?

They cry, they lie

About how they didn’t know

But how couldn’t they?

They gave the final push

Why did they have to be that way?

Why couldn’t they just accept and love you the way you were?

I also had a picture of a boy with a piece of duct tape over his mouth that had the LGBT flag on it.

(I mean it's not a great poem but it's all I could come up with 😂😂)

So my CC team. Was my poem inappropriate or was I being silenced?

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