Friday, November 30, 2007

epiphany

a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

can't pretend anymore

1987

March 14th - I was shown a future of unrequited love and heartache. I knew then that I was doomed to a life of longing and regret. All men leave, even if they weren't fully there at all.

April 19th - On my 16th birthday, I spent all of my money trying to impress people I needed to be my friends, but wasn't very successful at hiding how much I amused them. I was the oddity, the freak that was entertaining. It was the beginning of the Jester.

Summer - My family turned against me. My mother had given me her old car, and someone kept calling it in as an abandoned vehicle. My aunt Diane wanted the car moved, and started her campaign to get me kicked out of my grandmother's house. I was going to a gay youthgroup at the Damien Center, and she had me followed one night to see where I was going. Stupidly, she told everyone I was going to a devil place because of the name Damien.

September - I came home to find my home, no...my room specificly was destroyed. While at the Damien center, someone came into a locked house, with a big guard dog, went to my room only and destroyed everything with a hammer. Only my aunt knew my grandmother would be out that night. Only my aunt had a key to the house. The guard dog was owned previously by my aunt. I still remember carrying everything to the dumpster, but only at 2am because my grandmother didn't want the neighbors to see it and question.

October - my best friend Charles spent the night. After laying around me in shorts and insisting on cuddling, he had the nerve to get disgusted with me when I tried to initiate sex. He went home the next day and never spoke to me again. Such is the folly of trusting friendship.

November - was told that my aunt threatened not to come around unless I was kicked out. My grandmother told me to stay in my room whenever she and her boyfriend came around to avoid 'trouble'. I learned how to hide in that cave of a room that year, to hide from my voice. I tried once to get help from my mother, as she is my aunt's sister, and she told me there was nothing she could do, that's why she moved all the way to Mooresville. I tried to call my father, who told me he wouldn't do anything for me either. I spent thanksgiving in my room. No one asked for me.

December - I decided to avoid christmas alltogether. I came home after the new year and my grandmother, acting all dire, handed me forty dollars and told me she sold my car for junk. My aunts boyfriend, drinking on Christmas day, took a sledge hammer to my car in front of everyone. They said nothing, just watched.

in 1987, I learned there is no love that can last, no friend that is ever true, nor any safety that can be trusted. Every year at this time, I go to my grandmothers and find a corner to sit still. I turn the Jester into subtle sarcastic jabs and watch them act as if nothing ever happened. My mother who's very words are "fuck family", will laugh with them and play the independent sister. My aunt diane, having a new and kinder boyfriend, will treat me with idle curiosity but never, never mention all she has done. My other aunt Theresa will dolt over her grandchild, never admitted how she always treated one of her sons better than the other.

in 2007, the family convinced my grandmother not to cook so much as she's 84. I thought I'd email everyone and make sure all the general foods were covered. Asking my mother, who's whoring herself out to a rich man whom she loathes in an attempt to get a house, for their email addreses, her response was "fuck family, fuck organization". She and I haven't spoken in two weeks, and thinking on it, we haven't really spoken about anything but her endeavor to became a rich whore. She asked me this year if I'd bring sandrah around and pretend she was my girlfriend so her rich guy would like me. Apparently he hates fags and fat people.

Today I took a cake to my grandmothers and had to re-explain why I wasn't coming. Ofcourse she turned the remorse into grief about herself. No one in my family says they're sorry, no one in my family admits to mistakes, no one in my family acknowledges the truth. While sitting there, my aunt diane, the same fucking bitch that helped shape me into this non trusting, afraid to love, fucking freak of a person has the nerve to call and ask that I look at her computer.

Many, many things have happened since them. Not all bad, but my life started when I got away from that place. I carry all of this with me, and I've tried so hard to escape it, but I can't.

in 2007, I sit here on Thanksgiving with my two most beloved friends, Ookas and Shadow. They are just now sitting down for dinner and what I call the great performance. I can just envision one of them asking about me, and my grandmother will say "he's not feeling well". Whoever will just nod and contine shoveling too salty food down the hatch. No one acknowledges.

I can't pretend anymore.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

'different for me'

…my thoughts drift. I allow myself the folly of imagining a life with Cedric. I see rolling pillow fights on Sunday mornings with lots of giggling, I see quiet moments spent laying together and I see our legs entwined while we try to become as the other. I see these things and more, but my heart tells me something else.

“It’s different for me” he said. How sad am I? I speak to this guy for nearly three years, always keeping my composure, and two nights, …all that comes crashing down.

I can’t find words.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

unlike me

I'd mercifully forgotten how alone I am, until now that is. Have I purposely isolated myself, or rid myself of users and liars as I'd thought?

I'm feeling old; really old down in my soul.

I could be in a relationship if I allowed myself to like these men that seek me. I can't bring myself to like anything but what I like...and I like younger, thin guys that have passion for life. Guys unlike me.

I can't believe how preoccupied with Cedric I have been. Visions of his body, his eyes intrude on me in the oddest moments. Do I want him more out of rejection, or the realization that I do indeed need love as I'd tried to convince myself otherwise. If I could just go back to that moment when I let him go...I'd hold him just as long as I could.

The world somehow seems empty now that I've met him. What do I have in my future? I know I sound all dire but when people affect me as much as he, I can't help but feel the reality of lonliness.

Unlike me.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

whydoieventry

...I don't know how to feel.

he was here when I came home friday. as I turned the corner, his lanky form leaned against his white car. my eyes drank in his long neck and beautiful visage. i actually smiled.

the obligatory house tour and intros followed. before long, we lay together, exhausted by our sex. i felt immediately comfortable. aside from a stupid stunt which resulted in a fractured rib, the rest of the weekend was like that. everything about him was surrealistically familar and strange. as the end of the weekend approached, both my mental and phsyical pain increased.

what would I do when he left I wondered. i thought i had longer. he left late sunday night; trying to stay and kiss me longer, i pushed him away in fear of losing myself further.

i can openly say i love him with out hesitation now, but he doesn't want it. today, all was made clear. there will be no sudden understanding, no realization we need to be together, no return to love. and i wonder, what's wrong with me? everything falls apart. why do i even try?