More
than once I have heard those among the less enlightened heterosexual majority sneer
that gay people don’t know the meaning of love. Such stupid, ignorant comments
do not merit a response except, perhaps, in a poem…
Readers may be interested to know that this villanelle was inspired by a fascinating and very uplifting conversation with two gay ex-servicemen in their 50's at London bar one evening.
GETTING ON WITH LOVE
Getting
on with life, two gay men
(in a
world living with Terror)
targeted for abuse, time and again
Nothing
to lose, everything to gain
(in
world that’s a weeping sore);
getting
on with love, two gay men
Getting
on with life, two gay men
(for knocking at freedom's door)
targeted for abuse, time and again
World, in the grip of blind religion
(floods
of fear, a living nightmare);
getting
on with love, two gay men
Played
a part rescuing Afghanistan
from
the Taliban’s hold on power,
targeted for abuse, time and again
Pray,
we see its peacemakers win
on a
planet left turning on Terror;
getting
on with love, two gay men,
targeted for abuse, time and again
Copyright R. N.
Taber 2009; 2016
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