R.I.P. Gay Poetry... by Boyshadow

Foe or friend
it may all depend

but joined at the hip for the love of the pen
and men
…so we meet again

Let’s rewind time for those whose time at GayPoetry
may have been shorter than mine
It was a website for quite some time
Guys went there to free their mind
relax, spend time
and write something divine
but suddenly… it vanished in 2009.

It was a place to compare poetry from the comfort of home
in your underwear
yet we all had fun there
so compare it
to nowhere

But faster than he could ever walk out
it was lights out
The tiny sanctuary in the back of our minds
was wiped out
We tried to log in for about a week
to see if, maybe it was time out
But we slowly realized that Hope
is Optimistic Doubt
And if you didn’t have your poetry saved…
then you got assed-out

No warning… no nothing
it didn’t matter if you were in the middle of posting something
It didn’t matter if you had
one poem… or a hundred and something
Whether you suck… or you’re on to something

We were stuck with a pen in one hand
but nothing in the other
until we got a second wind
from our Brotha...
a fellow poetry lover

So I think it’s best if we all play our position
and maintain
the same tradition
Maintaining the peace here
is part of our religion
GP is gone
so now we use this one