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I Am Driftwood No Longer
by Len Bourret (Copyright 2004)

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Think the defeat, of the 'gay marriage' ban, will quiet the debate? Think again.

"...In order to believe that this (gay marriage) threatens heterosexual marriage,
you have to believe (that) it's a 'zero sum' game. If gay couples get married
then, somehow, straights will not. But why not both? Why can't marriage bring
us together, rather than tear us apart?

The answer, alas, is that this President (U.S. President George W. Bush) has
decided that it will help him, politically, to tear us apart. His base is restless
over government spending and Iraq, and this is a means to placate and
energize it. If that means turning a tiny minority into a lethal threat to
civilization, so be it. If that minority's sole crime is to seek to live in fidelity,
uphold the family, support responsibility then that, also, is beside the point.
In this battle, the President has shown his true colors. He is a divider, not
a uniter."
-- from If at First You Don't Succeed..., an Essay by Andrew Sullivan, in
the July 26th edition of TIME Magazine (Page 78).


I was able to catch the light,
but not from any lofty towers
on any sunset bay.
Because I would not have
been able to see nature's
rainbow prismic sight,
or a clear sky,
and a brighter day.

Or, what a sudden lift of
fog reveals,
a golden gate bridge so
majestic in a cloud,
the beauty it protects
and conceals,
hiding the sun within
its shroud.

Where constitutional
rights can be reborn,
for inherently good
gays and lesbians,
for Madonna and
Elton John, Rock
Hudson and Lena
Horne.

Did land winds blow
from wild flowers?
Did land winds blow
from thunder showers?
I really do not know.

But, one thing I am
most certain.

In order to enjoy a
rainbow, you must
be willing to pass
through the rain.

The colonists' gallant
ships, to places like
New England, once
sailed.
My gay and lesbian
family went to San
Francisco.
Their self-determination
never failed.
Artistically creating an
eden more benevolent,
to carve their place in
the world, to live life
fully, and to find their
gain.

So grateful that
I am gay,
and driftwood
no longer.

Rainbow people
make me proud.