Sadly, there
are still (and probably always will be) certain people in this world that condemn gay relationships,
continuing to see life as a Theatre of Threat, played out by their own shadows
on blinds pulled down by this or that socio-cultural-religious way of seeing
it.
We can (gay
or straight for that matter) but take every opportunity to raise the blinds and
at least try to live out our lives according
to our own better nature and sense of common humanity, not by any points of
view that may mean well but remain, by their
nature, intrinsically alien to both…
NATURE, UNDERWRITING LOVE
Sat on a hilltop, you and
I,
just as we had done for
years,
watching clouds drift by
and green slopes rolling
away
into a fine patchwork of art
as only Earth Mother
creates
(much the same, yet new)
at each dawn’s rolling
into dusk,
to stars lighting up
dreams
where even no-hopers dare
go
in safety, no fear of
sexuality
being drawn out by fair Apollo
for the whole world to see
Among falling stars, you
and I,
and I wonder if you are making
a wish anything like mine
as I watch it roll away
like a ball
of silvery twine into a
mist
harbouring dreams and
desires
of gay lovers for
centuries,
ebb and flow of day and
night,
nature and human nature
confusing issues,
darkening minds,
moulding poor humanity
into ways of a shadowy
world
played out on closed blinds
Wrestling silence, you and
I,
each unspoken word finding
fists
clenched against
everything
left unsaid, as we had
always done,
yet this time, differently,
as your body, mind and
spirit
plead access to mine,
each unspoken word entering
me,
coursing through my veins,
reawakening growing pains
I thought
put down long since,
now red hot needles
penetrating,
demanding a quick response
Sweet surrender, you and
I,
unspoken words finding a
voice
if silence left unbroken
in a frenzy of feeling
contributing
to as fine a patchwork
of nature and human nature
as Earth Mother creates
(much the same, yet new)
at each dawn’s rolling
into dusk
to stars lighting up
dreams
where even no-hopers dare
go
in safety, no fear of
sexuality
being drawn out by fair
Apollo
for the whole world to see
Copyright R. N.
Taber 2015
