"When" by Maceo Thompson (he/him)

When you're alone

When you're happy

When you hear the radio

When you put on the right music

When you're in a room with a person you know well

When you know your feelings well

When you see the light and feel it on your skin

When you can ride your emotions perfectly

When you feel beautiful and not afraid of anything

When you can look back and realize that you are all in one

When you realize what you have lost

and that it’s okay to lose things once in a while

When you realize what is important in life

now

I am there. I am you. You are me. You belong here too.

I am the light. I am the person

who has always known what I was. I am the person

who will remember the nights I was together and the days we lost to each other.

I will remember laughter and tears

and loving hands that found my body

and touched it.