When languages are equal, would not
the homophobic God choose pure--
choose the language without taint
of same-sex love?
Yet the language of the Christ is Greek--
last glory of mankind,
more beautiful than English,
eternal yet.
The Greeks knew the language of desire
and did not restrict it--
their words live on:
lesbos, sapphic, even homo--
all these are Greek.
They celebrated the forms of love
and dared to speak love's name,
in sensuous, curving letters--
their works live on.
And this the language of the Bible,
of an anti-gay God?
Surely Sappho and Solon laugh--
their words are as free
as the many variations of human love--
blessed and commended by the God of love.
Sybil Unrest Community Member |
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