The headline read:
“Hate crimes against gay people rockets
In the UK”
Today.
Incomprehensible
To people who have no prejudice.
But I see prejudice
Everywhere.
I see it in people I love.
Who say they love me.
This need, to be accepted
By a society,
A society, that says, it is
Civilised.
A civilisation that doesn’t accept
Love.
We get caught up,
To be civil, to love?
The more one loves,
The more one hates.
I do not wish to be civil
And correct,
If loving is wrong.
I have stopped understanding.
I will not sacrifice Right.
I will stand up for myself,
Even if I lose the fight.
Don’t expect me to bow down,
Or think on the larger cause;
Yet I am not violent;
That is not one of my flaws:
But I stand up against those
Who don’t get my Right to Live,
I am not one to forget,
If you ask me to forgive.
I am not understanding:
I reject any decree
That will not let you love
Someone different, like me.
I know who I was, and am,
I’ve every right to be!
For my right to love and live
I will rise up willingly.
She was someone’s daughter.
He was someone’s son.
What bitter hate was this
to deny love and end laughter?
What horror they must have seen!
What fear they must have felt!
What torment they must have known!
What a night it must have been!
Her father must be fading away
His mother must be bereft
To know their children suffered
For no reason but loving their way.
Hearts Still Care 