Fear

                     

 

 

                               You think of them as foreign, strange

                              Their relationship is something you should avoid,

                               Keep your kids away from.

 

 

                            You say you aren’t against it, no, not at all

                             But you just don’t want your kids thinking its ok

                             Thinking that love can go beyond the means of being able to reproduce

                            Thinking that love has no boundaries

                              Perhaps you don’t want them thinking at all.

 

 

                          You say it doesn’t bother you, you “respect” them

                         You still see them as people

                          But when a trans teen is murdered you bat the other eye

 

                               You see that couple holding hands and quickly

                             Turn your child away, distracting them from such a sight

                             No, no we could not have your son’s masculinity being threatened could we?

  

                             And perhaps what all this fear of boundless love boils down to

                           Is a fear of love itself

 

Because if you loved yourself first then the love of others,

You would accept without a second thought