sins, sinning

By a.lesser.thing

Sun, 07 Apr 2013
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You can press an iron against my heart
but it doesn't make it flat. You can tell
me that my love is lesser than your love,
but I have to remind you that, within days,
Romeo and Juliet had their first kiss, got married
and died as a consequence of strong emotion.

You believe in that
but you tell me that my love
is a sin? What makes sense of it?

Boys love boys.
Girls love girls.
Get over it.

You get to have a hand to hold,
and you get to get married in front
of your god - so why should we not?

Love is supposed to be celebrated,
and if your god is telling you not to judge,
then why don't you listen?

How am I sinner?
How are you not?

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Submitted by littleditty on
i love this poem - I'd (mayb)cut 'fucking' because your logic seems more powerful without it. Best your readers are felled by your logic, than get in a huff for a 'rude' word. This is a poem for many people, well done.(for when we were attacked, stoned with beer cans for a kiss on the cheek on a sunny day, and for the loser who shot me from his apartment window ffs!Thanks)

 

Submitted by a.lesser.thing on
I took your advice and removed it - during the time I was writing it, I thought the poem was lacking a little sharp edge, but now that you pointed it out I see that it's much better without it (and after all, arguing sense is best done with respectable language). I absolutely despise homophobia, and the fact that so many people think it's correct to oppress another group simply because they don't agree with it, or they think it's disgusting. I think asparagus is disgusting, but you don't see me trying to get a national ban on it! I can definitely relate to you - I live in an awfully close-minded town. It sucks. Nobody should have to be scared to walk down the street, holding hands the one with they love. I'm sorry that happened to you, and all the same, I'm glad you kept fighting. Someone's got to show 'em eventually, eh?

 

Submitted by littleditty on
send it out Jamie? To papers, LGBT ones, national ones, blogs -your country is battling with the ideas in this poem, time's right for your un-hysterical voice!

 

Submitted by littleditty on
(Perhaps, stick with a penname for local papers!)