Dedicated to Paul Monette

Writer, poet and AIDS activist. Died in 1995 from AIDS with his third lover at his side, having watched his first two die of the same disease.

"In the face of injustice, not to be angry, is injustice."
                                                                                   ......Paul Monette

"Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world."
                                                                                  .......Paul Monette

Inspired
Too cold to live,
too cold to die.
too cold to fall,
and too cold to fly.
The cold bears not on skin,
because frozen is the heart.
The icy circles are run,
only to finish where we start.
We run for reason,
we run from our lives.
We run away from others,
to sprint to the lies.
We feel guilt to the world,
not good enough in its eyes.
For the world bears the frost,
to inflict the cold we despise.
So fight the world!
Break the chains it cruelly bears!
Your heart and rage are all that stand,
to fight this world's heirs.

...Justin David Vaughn

To note, the above poem was written by me minutes after watching "Paul Monette: Brink of Summer's End" and obviously inspired by the two quotes above it. I recommend eveyone watche that show. Movies very, VERY, rarely make me cry. It certainly did though. Several times. If you can gain nothing else from reading any of the above or from watching that show, then simply carry with you the message: CHANGE SOMETHING