Here’s
wishing peace and happiness to all lovers, gay or straight, who are able to be together. May those kept apart by circumstances beyond
their control find peace of mind, and eventually be reunited.
Sadly,
there can be no happy ending for all of us. There are plenty of people in the
world who cannot bear to see others happy, usually because they lead such
miserable lives themselves. Or they put forward various
socio-cultural-religious objections and manage to persuade themselves that
theirs is the moral high ground. Huh, as if…!
Whatever,
to love and be loved has to be one of life’s most precious gifts and even
having to part with a loved one cannot take that
away from us; it is ours to keep and cherish always.
The chances
are a take on life derived from mutual love will make itself felt in ways great
or small, but never insignificant, through much of what we do and say.
Hopefully,
the power of love with which we have
been blessed will rub off on others. Who knows? We may even help to make the
world a kinder place.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF TIMES PAST
If now we
can be together,
let us
never forget
hard
times in long shadows,
afraid of
certain others guessing
we are
lovers
True, we
are still together,
even if
some will say
the law’s
an ass for treating
gay men
and women the same
as
everyone else
Yes, we
are living together,
walking
tall in the sun,
while
some gay partners
still made
to run the gamut
of
Chinese whispers
Where
cultural traditions
and world
religions
accommodate
each other,
let us
take heart, be sure to play
our part
If now we
can be together,
let us
never forget
hard
times in long shadows,
afraid of
certain others guessing
we are
lovers
Copyright
R. N. Taber 2009; 2017
[Note: An earlier version of this poem first appeared under the title 'Chinese Whispers' in On the Battlefields of Love by
R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2010.]
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