Pieces

Alone in a room staring at millions of pieces, you begin a puzzle.

Unsure and scared, you pick one up, yet it doesn't fit.

You keep picking up pieces trying to make them align perfectly yet

there's no match, so you put the pieces down, walk away, and step outside of the box.

You begin again...

Searching for the missing piece you've been looking for all your life,

you realize it’s not in this world, but in a better place where

people are allowed to be who they are without judgment. At first, you don't know what to call it,

I know now

I can call it

home,

still struggling to find a match you come across a box with many pieces that look exactly alike.

What do you do now?

I try each one on…

and then-

a match!

Feeling more confident than ever you complete the puzzle and move on.

Unafraid, you walk over to the next box of pieces, dump them out, and begin a new puzzle.