O u t l a w
Take something from me.
I dare you
Put me under your microscope and make a spectacle of my sickness
Take my privacy and crush it in your sterile petri dish until it’s
Red raw.
I will still love against the law.
Take the warmth from the kindness in the Sun.
With your magnifying glass
Let it burn holes in my diseased brain
Clamp forceps on my putrid tongue
Enervate my essence as your test subject
Reduce me to hollow jaw
I will still love against the law.
Make a beast of me amongst men.
Take the clothes from my body with your handy work
Present my perfectly ripe deformity to the masses
Make an example of me.
The people will shout: "What a pretty pity!"
"What a crying shame!"
"Such a waste of flesh and blood and nature is to blame!"
Take the blame.
Force it down the throats of those who choose nature as their Lord
Let us never see the light of day as you make us cherish pain.
Let us never marry
But force upon us wedlock and child
Take pleasure in the poison poured on all those lives lived in vain
But we the creatures,
The beasts on all fours
We will still love against the law.
So you can take my mind
Take my mouth
Take my body
Take my freedom
But you will never take my pen.
I'll write love letters to distance cities
Scrawl my passions on sick bags
Conjure sweet nothings to pages that will reach all corners of the earth.
And even when the gallows call me
Even when my last lover takes flame to my words in fear,
Take heed when you make an example of me
For this I am sure:
You will only fuel the fire
For we who love against the law.