I wrote this for the Day of Silence at my school.

You'd sign up and be handed a note to hang around your neck. It said that you would not speak a word on this day to show your support for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender.

I am straight, but I have a friend who is homosexual and another who is bisexual.

I wound up reading this to an audience on Diversity Night, celebrating diversity of course, and I never felt so happy or proud of myself. I wasn't afraid to get up on that stage and talk into that microphone about what I believe love to be.

Now, you don't have to agree with me, that's your opinion.

But by no means am I to see any negative, hateful or anything of the sort comments on this page. If I do, you won't even get a warning. I will report you straight to the founders of for harassment.

You don't have to agree with my beliefs, but I will not tolerate anyone putting me down for them. Or putting down my friends or others for loving someone "society" deems wrong.

Love is never wrong, not when it's true. But the views of others sure can be.

Reviews are appreciated, but as said before, NO FLAMING.

Day of Silence

Love;

such a strange word,

so hard to describe.

The dictionary puts it to words,

but can love really be defined?

If you were to ask someone what love is,

they might answer a family,

or a first crush.

But to most who are asked,

between a man and a woman is the only other place love is.

But what about two men and two women,

can they not love each other?

Not as friends or family,

but true to honest lovers?

Why do you turn your nose up at them?

Why do you turn them away?

They're no different from you and I,

they cry,

they laugh,

they love.

So I'm a guy and I like a guy,

or I'm a girl and I like a girl.

Or maybe I even like both.

There's nothing wrong with that.

It's how I feel deep inside,

who makes my heart beat fast.

Yet so many of you,

say that love is wrong.

"Wrong?"

Why is it "wrong?"

Is love not meant to be a happy feeling,

a warmth that will always remain?

So why define love,

why set rules for whom one can love?

Why put these limits to what love truly can be?

So before you answer that question, think carefully.

Not with your eyes, or your mind,

or the opinions of others.

Think with your heart.

Love is without boundaries,

without rules to bind it down.

So now tell me,

what is love?

That emotion that no one can deny,

that feeling so true and deep.

It fills us with eternal warmth,

from our heads to the toes of our feet.

Where can love exist?

Tell me this answer now.

Anywhere, and everywhere.

All across the Earth.

In a family,

between friends,

a guy and a girl

and—

A guy and a guy,

and a girl and a girl.

This is where love truly is.

So take this Day of Silence,

and just think with your heart.

Do not open your mouth,

close your ears to others,

close your eyes to the world around you.

And only listen to your heart.

As the day ends,

I know by the time it's through,

you'll find every word I'm saying,

holds nothing but the truth.