Thomas Hill Pray the Gay Away

Someone stole all of my sunshine.
Spirit and smile plucked straight from these hands.
Some man of heaven, holy.
Moved all my sunshine and my stardust
My dusk and my dawn gone.

This world,
Is black sky of lonely lurking up above
I’ve been wandering these galaxies looking for my me
I’ve been so[u]lar searching
There’s a selfish sinister of a something,
that stole my sunshine straight from these hands.
I am holy lamb of a boy.
Bones broken open,
to bleed out these rainbows.
Everybody knows
No color of the rainbow can render themselves righteous in the dark
So someone took all my sunshine.
and I am still not sure whether it be God or Ghoul
Whether it be “amen”, or a man
too greedy for his own damn good.
Something putrid of a prey,
tried to pray my sky away.
Praise the blackness!
I can’t see myself in the dark
Dusk and dawn gone
Praise the Holy Ghost!
Westboro baptist babies
babbling barbaric bigotry
I heard that only something biblical can bear such destruction.
Praise the communion!
Body and blood stripped bare
for some shadow of salvation
Praise the repent
and the sin
and the repent 
and the sin 
and the repent 
and the sin
Save Me!
I’m six hail Mary’s away from last Saturday night.
Praise the night!
And all the of the liberation it denies me.
Praise the repent!
The back bent and obedient body.
Praise this body!
It no longer belongs to me,
not as if it ever has
since the day my sunshine was stolen
I’ve been holy lamb of a boy.
Hallelujah he seems to be Cured!

Cured of what?

This blood, is an itch.
Cancer in every capillary.
I’ve been scratching my skin raw,
trying to make myself pure.
Maybe then, 
My father would hug me,
as tight as he does his bible.

Without my sunshine,
Without my rainbow.
Coffins are looking more bed than box.
Nuces, don’t seem to be such neuisance If wrapped around my neck.
Neck deep in holy water I’m drowning.
You said, you’d pray this plague away.
Pray this sunshine and sin.
This killer of a color away.
Dusk and dawn gone.
Come come child,
Let this biblical bleach out those pesky rainbows
Bow down to the Alter
Alter yourself straight 
Don’t need no sunshine for your salvation
Welcome to the dark side.

Analysis

I chose "Pray the Gay Away," Honestly when pastor's pray for you they try and pray the gay out of you. My thing is how can you pray something that doesn't really need to be prayed away but just needs to genuinely be loved. Not because of a Sexual orientation or preference but because WE are human beings as well as heterosexual beings.  Thomas said, Someone stole all of my sunshine. Spirit and smile plucked straight from these hands. Some man of heaven, holy. Moved all my sunshine and my stardust My dusk and my dawn gone." Thomas is basically saying that because a preacher has prayed over him and asked God to take away his sin of being gay that the pastor was praying away his happiness and joy. His well being the man who he is and still is becoming. In this spoken word Thomas uses metaphor.  Thomas said, I’ve been scratching my skin raw, trying to make myself pure. Maybe then, My father would hug me, as tight as he does his bible." Thomas compare himself to the bible because his father is so holy and goes by the bible and doesn't care how his son is living. He wants his son to be a man. He wants his son to marry a woman and not go around claiming he is gay. Thomas wants his father love  regardless of his lifestyle or people trying to make him change into the person they want him to be. 

Thomas is going through I would say is a traumatic time for him because he is being publicly ridiculed by being prayed over by the pastor. Thomas said, Praise the repent and the sin and the repent  and the sin  and the repent and the sin
Save Me!" The people in the church is praying over Thomas praising the fact that he is repenting and he probably was forced to be prayed his sin away. I've been embarrassed in front of a church before. The pastor started talking about LGBT youth and me and my friends walked out the church and as we were leaving the pastor pointed at us and said see there they go. That was the most humiliating experience for me. 

Thomas spoke these words saying, "Pray this sunshine and sin. This killer of a color away. Dusk and dawn gone. Come come child, Let this biblical bleach out those pesky rainbows Bow down to the Alter; Alter yourself straight  Don’t need no sunshine for your salvation Welcome to the dark side." The people in the church basically wanted the gay sin in him to go away and they wanted him to be straight. They want him to stop pronouncing against God and be who " God wanted him to be." Which in their eyes felt he needed to be straight and marry and Eve. Why because God made Adam and Eve and not Steve and Steve or Eve and Eve.