My Virginity Is My Pride Poem by Martin Greyford

I grew up a shy kid
In a christian family and society,
But I was never told or taught
Of the cunning people of the outside world.

I grew up to teenagehood and
Met other people of the outside world.
I began living a life influenced by these people
I befriended in my adolescent stage.

I almost forgot my moral values
That I have been taught earlier.
I once said; some things of the world
Were so cosy, like the things we watched.

Things that contaminate the minds
And start controlling the whole body.
My friends and I visited a brothel,
Where they exchanged their money with women's bodies.

But I said my virginity is my pride.

I can't fight this feeling,
See I'm so tired of pretending,
Pretending things are normal when
My path really ain't the straightest.

I think I have been favoured among sinners.
Recalling on all that Amen I used to shout in church
And the sermons I listened and heard from the preacher-man
Made me say my virginity is my pride to my friends.