My brothers my

mothers

don’t be bothered

by words of degradation

and sin

We can’t all be washed with your

Holy water

because not all of us claim to be

Gods daughter

These ignorant fools live in something

way less than bliss

and seem to miss

the abstract thought that we are all

equal.

Who gave you the right

to fight me

on my beliefs if all I want

is to believe in love

and the inherent worth

and dignity of every

person.

You cry and

kill

but you don’t listen

to the voices that you don’t deem

worthy.

how am I supposed to

breathe

when your gun blistered hands are

wrapped around my throat

and how can people speak

when they are 10 feet

under the ground

I can’t love another woman

but you can fuck as many as you want

even when they scream no

and somehow it’s always the victims fault

and the oppressed

will remain

obsessed

with the idea that

there is such a thing

as equality

and we cannot stop this

war

that has been thrown at us

until we stop burying

children and the seats of

public transport

aren’t stained with

semen.

but I know that there is good

somewhere in this sick

world

and if we brush ourselves off

stand up again and

find each other

maybe we will see that

hope

exists

and that our day will come.