coming out

I don’t know if anybody cares but I came out to my friends a few days ago by showing them this limerick:

Been trying to find a way,

To say the words I still can’t say.

Despite my own doubt,

I’ll write my way out,

And let y'all know that I'm gay.

I know it’s not really great poetry (although I was really proud of the Hamilton reference) but it got the point across in a lighthearted way and that was all I really needed. I had it written out on a flashcard and I just dragged them all outside to read it in our school field. There were ladybugs everywhere, and they kept landing on us. My friends are all just lovely people, and they took something I’d been stressing about for a while and just made it right.