Kurt Philip Behm

I Hate

I hate the ‘Body

Politic’

Whose wave blasphemes

and grows

I battle to swim against

its tide

Or be abandoned in the

flow

I hate the way it stunts

my voice

‘Old Dominions’ chosen

side

I hate the fact—it’s hate

I feel

With the truth a captive

lie

     Kurt Philip Behm 

Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016

          Inspired By Neal Hall