Turn The Other Cheek

Turn The Other Cheek by Khari D. Hawke For many there is an innate desire to be with the same sex, to have  and share that physical intimacy that has one to come alive but in  order to survive without the jeers and taunts one turns the other  cheek if only for a matter of survival.  It is living a life or at some malignant level a lie. A big fat lie  (smile) but seriously there are no smiles as each day I am in the  darkness when I truly wish to be in the light but in the light my  Truth may surface and that is a risk that I am not willing to take.  It is a false self that goes around each day. It is the self that is  turning to the other cheek not solely for my benefit but for the  benefit of those who love me but again that is not love but fear and  yet it is that fear that keeps us all in the dark as no one is  willing to turn on the light.  I turn the other cheek when I pay my taxes but am treated like a  second-class citizen when it comes to who I wish to marry with the  exception of it being legal in 2 states here in the Americas.  I turn the other cheek when the Constitution states that I have a  right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. BULLSHIT!  President Bush was seeking a constitutional amendment to prohibit me  from marrying another man and a woman from marrying another woman and  this is from the land of the free and the home of the brave.  I turn the other cheek because when it is all said and done I love my  country. I wouldn't live anywhere else and I have lived some places  but there is no place like home and for me home is the United States  of America.  Although I may turn the other cheek in order to get through the day  without judgment it is though the internalized judgment that I am not  free of.  There comes a time when one gets sick and tired of turning the other  cheek and when that happens...