Equality

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Payson, Arizona
United States

We took a step on the Moon; we sent rovers to Mars.

Whites, Blacks, Asians, Mexicans, live together under one law

This country has children without mothers, children without fathers,

Our society thrives on controlling the world by judging others.

We make laws to protect us from what scares us,

Everything that is “scary” sends us into a fuss.

 

Some are scared of alcohol, I’ve seen what it’s done.

Did the alcohol kill the dads and moms?

Or was it the choices they made while they had the right?

Was it driving home drunk in the middle of the night?

They love the drinks, the Martini’s, the Shots, and the Bloody Marys

Yet when a woman loves a woman they can’t get married?

 

If together our country made laws against things like allowing us to drink, this nation would flop like a fish in a tightly bound net.

Alcoholics want alcohol, nicotine addicts want a cigarette.

But when all that we want is equality we are denied the right? let us refuse to allow our freedoms to be background noise.

Maybe we were born with it, maybe it was a choice.

Why do you judge us for loving who we love, why do you judge us for trying to be happy?

We can’t even get married to fill our children’s world with moms loving moms or dads married to dads.

 

If this country can legalize the choice to ruin ourselves,

Why can’t we together legalize the right to be with the one we want, not for money, not for fame but love and nothing less.

If the saying that “Love is blind” is really true,

Then why does our gender matter to you?  

 

Comments

RebeccaYSPerez

This poem is so strong and powerful, I could not help but share it with everyone on my Facebook page! Thank you so much for writing this! Your explanations and passion is evident outright in this piece.

Becca.

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