Friday, 11 December 2015

Breaking Out OR G-A-Y, Standing Up for Sexuality


A homophobic neighbour once snarled at me, ‘I hope all you gays get your just deserts.’

I hope so too … and may it include the freedom to fall in love and be loved in return by the person of our choice just as nature intended - for us all, whatever our ethnicity, sexuality, religion or, yes, age too.

BREAKING OUT or G-A-Y,  STANDING UP FOR SEXUALITY

Shedding shackles that bind,
leaving fear and suspicion behind,
getting the life we deserve, born free
to fall in love ...

Coming but into our identity,
nature’s gift of life and sexuality,
deaf to threats of those world cultures
clinging to its scriptures

Refuting legends of Creation
denying us any hope of salvation
for fearlessly and, oh, so passionately
embracing our sexuality

Taking on biased critics
misinterpreting the hieroglyphics
supposedly expressed in ancient theses
on living nemeses

Mending fences torn apart,
reclaiming territories of the heart
under attack by a (so) bigoted morality
sponsored by Society

Making a stand for humanity
against those calling for ‘propriety’
based on some so-called  ‘moral’ stance
that we cause offence

Shedding shackles that bind,
leaving fear and suspicion behind,
getting the life we deserve, born free
to fall in love …

Copyright R. N. Taber 2009

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