reverie Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 (edited) Abstaining from Love "If I can choose not to have sex until I am married, why can't they abstain from being gay," she said, my fellow seminarian, years before we graduated with our BAs. She to the right and I too the left, literally as I set out from the radical school on the West Coast, she the remained on the East -- South East -- the cradle from which we were both born. I counseled, you have your dream that you will find someone and a good chance that your family will recognize him if your love in true, and even if it's not the State will, so long as you pay the fee for a paper license. You abstain in anticipation of fulfillment. You suppress yourself to give more one hopeful day to the one man, dream that is meant for you. Yet, you are still you. Not changed, completed. Would you deny that to a man that loves a man or a trans who loves a trans as you dream to love a man, or a woman that loves a woman wishing for a child as you wished and wish. Kristin, love gives before it takes. And the more you wish to take away from that which you do not love, but fear the less you will have to give to Him. Edited October 20, 2008 by reverie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peredhil Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Well written Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vigil StarGazer Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 While I do not totally agree to the idea in the poem about gays and trans and alternative sexual preference I do like how you pointed out her flawed logic. Abstiance has nothing to do with gay marriaged and etc and one cannot just stop being gay. Your second stanza is stronger and definately clever in pointing out her flawed idea of marriage. Your last stanza is the strongest thou and definately delivere the knock out punch and that becomes the centeral core to your poem: love is about giving and not taking, and taking for those you do not love will leave you with less. Sometimes I wish more people would understand that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmonious_Echos Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Kristin, love gives before it takes. And the more you wish to take away from that which you do not love, but fear the less you will have to give to Him. Amen! *claps* Also very well written, yes it is, it is. (exits in full Yoda mode, plus cane and cape) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reverie Posted November 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 Yeah, I just kind of rifted it off. First poem I wrote in like half a year. (Muse still burned out from undergrad) Is too prosey, I think. Eh, I'll come back to it in a year or two, once emotions from the election have settled some... take care, rev... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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