Some
socio-cultural-religious groups wordwide remain intrinsically homophobic. Why
can they not see that for gay men and women for all kinds of
socio-cultural-religious backgrounds to be gay, sexuality has to be genetic?
It is a fact of life and nature that some of us are born
gay. Sexuality has to be in the genes, and what could be more natural…?
Whatever, let's never give up on a time when Old Mother Hope returns with a spring in every step...
Whatever, let's never give up on a time when Old Mother Hope returns with a spring in every step...
RECONCILING WITH NATURE
The wood was dark and bare,
still smelled of winter,
in the bleakness of despair
where I chose to wander;
no birds sang the joys of living
left paralysed by my grief,
the pain of its unforgiving nature
denying every tree a leaf
Who speaks for a 21st century
caught out taking part
in cruel twists of inhumanity
on gay folks at its heart?
Hadn’t love earned our trust,
despite a cultural history
bent on grinding gay people to dust
with its hate and hypocrisy?
with its hate and hypocrisy?
All trust shaken in life and love
and no guiding light;
a barn owl on the prowl above
saw me stumble, take fright;
my fear gave way to admiration,
watching it wing its way
as sure as winter to its regeneration,
night, inevitably, to day
Seduced by the dawn chorus,
I tasted your kisses again,
a weepy sun letting fall its tears
on sad trees like spring rain;
came the harbingers of spring,
to that wood dark and bare,
centuries-old poems joyfully relating
its triumphs for every ear
For all lovers the world would part,
Earth Mother’s words ring true;
me, I could but learn them by heart
and pass them on to you,
Her love, at least, earning our trust,
despite a cultural history
failing to grind we gay people to dust
with its hate and hypocrisy
Copyright R. N. Taber 2010
Copyright R. N. Taber 2010
[Note: This poem first appeared as 'A Taste of Spring' in On the
Battlefields of Love by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2010.]
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