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Poem in response to Reduced Inequalities
October 2018

Rainbow Banner

By Grace Muresan
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CC Image Credit Courtesy of Ted Eytan

People always say the thing about being in love

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Is that no matter who it’s with it will be blessed from above.

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Yet another thing that people tend to say

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Is that sinful love is being gay.

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A rainbow banner, held to the sky,

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In a crowd of people, with spirits high,

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To a rainbow flag held in the heart

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Of one who’s blood relative has told them to depart.

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Since forever, the beginning of time,

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Homosexuals have been treated like slime.

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Back in England, 1952,

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Alan Turing got a cyanide brew.

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Because he was gay, he could only choose

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Between going to jail or getting hormonal abuse.

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I don’t understand why it matters so much

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Whether you love the same sex or another as such

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What matters is that there is equal love and joy

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Whether you’re with a girl or a boy.

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