Drag Show

Last night I felt tears in my eyes
As I watch you pull the tenser bandage off your chest
In the middle of the most spectacular glitter shower
I've ever seen in my life
And sat with me on the floor afterward
And told me that you felt them in your eyes
The tears that is, not the glitter
Although I wouldn't be surprised.

While you were still backstage
I sent you a text message, shaking, to say
That your honesty and your bravery
Had blown me away
I felt it necessary to let you know this
While my heart was still pounding my ribcage
Like an ancient ritual.
Like the ancestors of my identity,
Before it was diced up into boxes,
Were being called to life by you dancing,
Primal and bare, in stiletto ankle boots.

I felt it was imperative to say something
Before the wind took me away
And still I felt the need to contemplate
My honesty,
To choose the words I would share with you
As separate to the ones I'd share with me
Throughout the three minutes of your honesty
That changed everything for you,
And the whole room,
And me.