Dawn of the Orange People: A Poem for Equal Rights and Marriage Equality

Under the cloak of darkness

they journey out of hiding

to a secret place that

welcomes them.

Tonight they gather in the

greatest of numbers,

abandoning caution,

defying warnings of an

immense release of energy

and coming of color.

The joyful reunion unleashes

their deepest emotions,

hidden for so long out of

fear of persecution.

Suppressed passion rises

quickly and intensely,

until the desert air quietly,

yet violently erupts into

bright, surging bursts

of orange.

The pulsating glow

penetrates the night sky,

lighting mountains, valleys,

and the great sea.

This day the world awakens

long before sunrise to

a new kind of dawn,

of a people wanting only to

love freely and openly in

the brightest light of day.

~gj duerrschmidt

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