Gateway

Written Spring 2016. Seems relevant with our current... presidential troubles.

To be gay in the Gateway

Is grievance.

Happy, not homosexual.

As having to know you're high

And mighty, others are low, and muddy.

May you pass this mood to other Missourians?

Not likely.

Love may be passed around yet

You may be loathed for it.

 

We try to dwell in our doings,

Those of great duration, and donation.

People die by the hands of

The people,

Sledgehammer to the literal

Heads of stationed storeowners,

Gunpowder in the blood

Of grade school boys and girls,

Gushing water flushing out the

Rushing city.

 

You may claim yourself an activist,

But through others eyes,

You are a feminist.

Claim yourself a protester

But through others, a problem.

Yourself a peacekeeper,

Others, a piece of s**t,

Oppressing any other

Of different color.

 

Yourself a savior,

Others, dictator.

Yourself an archway,

To others,

A wall.

Author's Note

Regarding Concerns: I am thinking of cutting the first stanza entirely. Let me know your thoughts on that.

Regarding Content: I wrote this before the concern that Donald Trump would be president, so eye opening to see how fitting it is to our current situation.

Reviews

[Kathrine Rethorn]

It might be best to switch the first and second stanza. Maybe not get rid of it just replace it. I don't think you need the last two sentences in the first stanza however. They seem Redundant. Unless its for format and such.