His Holy Spirit

One stormy night his Holy Spirit came to me

Offering me peace, love and tranquility

I’ve always been a believer in the presence of God

And my humble views still remain very broad

For he lives on deep within my caring heart

My faith and spirituality never the two shall part

As the morning sun rises and the evening sun sets

Wrapped in my faith, I have fewer regrets

My faith touches me in places like never before

I will lay my hand upon the church door

For his faith lives on both far and wide

It’s echoed on the shifting ocean tides

He is on the wind over the grassy plain

Whispering I shall be returning home again

it’s in the songs of the birds in the trees

He stands for freedom for both you and me

The eternal Holy Spirit does truly move me

Absent of his enduring love where would we be

It’s upon the wings of an angel I write this poem

In the love of Christ may every heart find a home

May his flame burn eternally in peace and love

With blessings from our heavenly father above

Gary Edward Allen 2017

My First Love

My first gay encounter was when I was 17 and I knew at that time that I was gay but I was not out of the closet by any means. In school I got called Gary fairy and was constantly bullied for the fact that these students of my high school thought I was gay, it seems that they knew before I did that I was gay. One summer night when I was 17 I went swimming at the Oak Bay pool in Victoria where I grew up. I went swimming with my best friend and his girlfriend, I got into an argument with my best friend and I decided to walk home. On the the way home I reached the highway and decided to hitch hike. A brand new burgundy Monte Carlo stopped and pulled up beside me, driving was a handsome man in his thirties. So I got into the car and he was playing a song I didn’t recognize it turned out to be Marianne Faithful a song called Why Ya Do It, it had such explicit lyrics, I loved it. He soon put his hand on my knee and asked if we could fool around. I thought about it for a second and said yes. My heart was racing with excitement when we pulled up to a dead end street near to where I lived with my mother and sister. We fooled around sexually for a while then he drove me home and asked if he could see me again. I said that I would have to think about it. We kissed goodnight. A little time went by and I called him and he came down from Duncan where he lived and picked me up his name was Cliff. We drove to his house where he showed me his record collection and we played music and drank beer and ended up in his bed where we had sex more than once. I stayed the weekend at his place and I didn’t tell my mom or anyone else where I was. My mom was so worried when I got home she said she was going to call the police and put in a missing persons report. I did not mean to worry her but I just wasn’t ready to come out of the closet. I continued seeing cliff for a few months and would get together with him and stay at his place in Duncan with him. The relationship lasted until I discovered the gay bar in Victoria.He was my first love and I will always recall him fondly.

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