TWO NEW POEMS: Identity & Yourself and Each Other

This LGBT+ History Month (U.K.) S P Clark is sharing 20 new poems to mark the 20th anniversary of this historic celebration of the LGBT+ community and its contribution to society. Each poem celebrates S P Clark's own journey navigating his way through the world as a member of the LGBT+ Community. These final two poems remind us to be proud of who we are, to stand together and to look out for each other.

S P Clark says, "it has been a joy to have written these poems to celebrate such a monumental celebration - 20 years of LGBT+ History Month (U.K.) is something to be admired, the outcomes extolled and the efforts to educate praised."

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Identity

Written to coincide with LGBT+ History Month (U.K.) 2025

Let me be clear

I am not here to provide symmetry

To be a version of those around me – the perfect other face

Watch me gently, no, ferociously step aside from the interchangeable, the indistinguishable, the clones that drone their way through life afraid to be themselves

I won’t be vacuum-packed or machine-cut and

Not just another carbon-copy

An alphabetised bookshelf, a straight line, a row of poppies

Yes, let me clear

I am not here to squeeze into your uniformity

I bathe in things that differentiate us and won’t swim in parallelism

Our sameness, alikeness doesn’t interest me for the crowd moves to slow.

Celebrate women who love women

Celebrate men who love men

Celebrate those who love many genders

Celebrate men who love women

Celebrate women who love men

Celebrate those who transition and those along their journey

Be fluid with your acceptance and kind with your tongue

Celebrate us all.

Let me be clear

I am determined to celebrate my singularity from now on

Those peccadillos that make me me

My distinctive uniqueness

The individuality that attracts people like moths to a flame

And repels in equal measure all the same

My differentness and peculiarity deserve to be pedestal high

Yes, let me be clear

I am determined to celebrate my identity from now on

I am an original bathing in my selfhood

I am my very own self.

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Yourself and Each Other

Written to coincide with LGBT+ History Month (U.K.) 2025

As we stand in this world of weaponised words

Festering hate

Laws being changed and rights being snatched from our grasp

Where people can still die for being who they are

Where people can still be imprisoned for loving who they love

Where the pressure and slurs are building every day

Closing us in and pushing down on our shoulders  

We have to fight, speak out, stand up, call it out, name and shame and don't thrive in blame, call it what it is, give hate a name

Do it for yourself and for each other

Don’t forget to check in with yourself and with each other

Be tender to yourself and soft with each other.

© S P Clark

You can purchase more S P Clark poetry on LGBTQ+ love by clicking the links below:

1. The Journey To Love: (A Long Weekend Away - Thursday to Tuesday)

2. TWO MEN, ONE LOVE

3. To view the full range of S P Clark's releases, click here