C.G.Ayling

Tag: love

  • Love’s Numbers.

    ~ Love’s Numbers ~
    ~
    What matters it to you,
    if I don’t love one, but two?
    And what matters it to me,
    if you don’t love two, but three?
    Should it matter still more,
    if we don’t love four, but ten-score?
    Or could love’s true number be five,
    is this the number for which we should strive?
    Father, mother, sister, brother, and spouse…
    Yet this leaves no room for our children,
    thus this number would make us… a louse.
    So perhaps love’s true number is six?
    No! No more of these numbering tricks.
    Numbers and numbers that climb,
    but what when these numbers decline?
    Love isn’t about numbers at all,
    love is the song of a passionate call.
    One doesn’t take love from their brother,
    in order to grant said love to another.
    Yet Love always matters my friend…
    ~
    Especially,
    when we fear
    that, for us,
    love might
    …end…
    ~

    Love is such an inadequate word isn’t it?

    Love comes in so many shapes and forms, each unique. Love is never the same, it should never be cause for blame, though sometimes it seems to be cause for shame. Love is not a structured, demarcated thing, yet we are continually compelled to make it so.

    Society, in my mind the source of blame for so many things, tells us how and who we should love. Society demands that we love some people unconditionally, while placing innumerable, unspoken conditions on how we love others. The organized religions approved by society dare to impose laws on love’s ultimate commitment, namely marriage. When it comes to love, all society and religion seem to do is confuse. Do they not understand that love is the one thing the world needs in excess?

    Love is incredibly important to me. I truly believe it improves lives. When we love others we care… and to me, caring is immeasurably better than indifference.

  • Time, to write a wrong.

    Time past righting a wrong, and this my writing of this wrong, in poetic form.

    Marriage Equality.
    Religion’s Organized Refrain.
    You must believe as we, or heathen will you be.
    Don’t confuse the faithful with your lies
    don’t dare to make them open, their dogma shuttered eyes.
    Marriage is a word most meaningful,
    that has but one design,
    its only purpose is fruitful copulation
    with other gendered, of your kind.
    How dare the unbelievers, take our holy word
    and twist, and turn it into something so absurd
    as love between two people,
    without bias for gender,
    Without honor for… our holy word.
    Love, for one of your own gender?
    Absurd!
    For anyone who dares use reason from their own brain
    You must show contempt,
    and haughty disdain.
    ~
    Reason’s Refrain.
    You proclaim your god is mighty, loving, and true,
    then by your deeds prove, his holy words mean nothing, to you.
    Twist the words written, that they might suit just you.
    Who are you to claim protection of the words you hold holy
    when by your efforts, you twist it into something so absurd
    as “love may only exist between those of opposite gender”.
    To thinkers, this obscenity, you dare to tender.
    Only when it suits you, do you quote your holy words.
    Often when it suits you, from context do you rip them,
    and with that deed, remove any true meaning.
    Picking and choosing, without gleaning
    any truth they might once have held.
    Guidance did they offer, words, like shalt… not must.
    Meanings long since forgotten, corrupted by man’s lust.
    Divinity is life, and life, divinity.
    Within our single life, we strive for love.
    We don’t know where we’ll find it,
    spiritually, not body bound, flowing from without.
    Or within the arms, of a mortal lover, maybe not devout.
    True love knows no season,
    true love doesn’t bow before dogmatic reason.
    It clasps you by the heart,
    and when it goes unrequited, it tears your afflicted soul apart.
    You claim you love your brothers, and yet you segregate
    you may not love another, whose gender yours does match.
    If the only purpose of marriage is procreation,
    then sinners are we all, without exemption.
    Marriage is a commitment, an everlasting bond.
    Marriage is not defined, by rigid little laws
    or rigid little people, without true, just, and fair cause.
    Does not marriage within in it hold love?
    Another simple, holy word…
    Love is not subject to reason,
    Love does not flinch before distrust,
    Love does not fail before mis-reason,
    nor bow before the discrimination,
    of this misguided nation
    The only thing, before which love kneels, is the claimer of your heart,
    who love has brought together, let no one tear apart
    ~
    Logic’s Refrain
    No law that is not equal, should be tendered, as true.
    No exceptions should we make
    that  within our laws entomb, foul discrimination.
    As anyone can see, this must be folly
    this, cannot be…
    divinity.
    Any decent person must demand…
    Marriage Equality.
    ~

     {I make no apologies for my changed views on Marriage. If you’re interested in the motivations of a contrary man, you may read my tale of enlightenment here, and here.}