FINALLY, Another Random Poem!

Unselfish Love

I've been told that queer relationships are 'selfish'

That our love is inferior, is sinful, isn't even real

But when I fell in love with a girl,

My affection couldn't ever be described as disgusting

Is love when you just want to be

With the object of your desire?

When you can talk with her,

About anything in the world?

When her laugh is the sweetest sound,

When you are continually amazed by her?

When you can imagine spending the rest of

Your life with her?

When she makes you laugh when you know

You're about to cry?

I've been told queer relationships are 'selfish'

That our love is inferior, is sinful, isn't even real

But when I fell in love with a girl,

My affection couldn't be described as disgusting

Love isn't disgusting

Whether it is romantic or platonic.

Not everyone among us,

Those you deem freaks and sinners,

Less than human,

Unworthy of respect,

experiences that strange desire for romance...

But why is platonic love lesser?

Why is romance so centered?

I fall between romantic and aromantic,

And my love is partly platonic

But it is not inferior

It is not lesser

Because our bared bodies look so similar.

Because I am both man and woman

I've been told queer relationships are 'selfish'.

Selfish? For wanting to be with her?

Selfish? For demanding bodily autonomy,

Not just for myself but for my queer siblings?

Selfish? For calling you out on your hypocrisy,

Your refusal to follow the First Amendment

That you have used to condemn me?

No. I am not selfish.

You are, because freedom of religion

Is not just freedom of Christianity.

Because what I do with my body

Is no one's business but my own

Because I demand agency,

But your discomfort is apparently

More important than my autonomy.

I love God. I respect Jesus

And his legacy of love

But you,

You have destroyed that

With the theocracy,

And the murders,

And the 'reparative' therapy

That you would call democracy.

Fuck your religion

Because you have taken that loving legacy

And you have used it to shed the blood

Of anyone who isn't your cookie cutter clone

I don't buy this 'love the sinner, hate the sin' crap

Because no matter what you pretend,

You still have blood on your hands.