Love,
like life, has its darker side. Some people have fixed ideas about love and will
oppose anyone - including family members - who choose a different variation on
the same eternal theme.
The
ability to turn love’s darkness into light is a gift passed on by lovers
everywhere throughout history. Sadly, humankind’s other gift - for inhumanity -
will all too often try to turn things around yet again…and succeed. It is down
to each and every one of us to do our best not to let that happen.
We cannot
stand by and let them invade our privacy, those who are blinded to the
happiness of others by some misguided and/ or ill-informed interpretation of
what is right and wrong.
Every humanitarian
needs to speak up against socio-cultural-religious traditions being used as an
excuse for bigotry and sectarian division/violence where it is but the dark
side of human nature that is to blame.
As for
love…Gay or straight, two people in love have the basic human right to be in love. No one has the right to deny us that. World
leaders who abuse their position to support anti-gay legislation (that means you, too, Mr. Putin) and
religious leaders who choose to interpret their religion to much the same
effect are a disgrace to humanity.
Whatever
our ethnicity, race, religion, gender or sexuality, we are all human beings and deserve to be
treated as such.
LINES ON THE HUMAN CONDITION
Mind-Body-Spirit,
writing
treaties in various tongues
on a
mother’s heart
as it
sighs over satirical goings-on
in comic
strip cartoons
Mind-Body-Spirit,
providing
a eulogy for the failures
of multiculturalism,
observing
how occupied territories
live on
empty gestures
Mind-Body-Spirit,
inciting
revolution among dreamers
who would
face facts,
repair
broken words to make good
well-heeled
intentions
Mind-Body-Spiri,
watching
out for black holes blown
by
wannabe martyrs,
sending
love letters home on scraps
of
roadside shrapnel
Mind-Body-Spirit,
last heard arguing for Human Rights
with a world’s tin gods
that so loves to blame their diversity
for its worst nightmares
Copyright
R. N. Taber 2008
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