THEY CLAIM

By Nahla Shabeer


Love, gender, it's a bias.
They claim, when you
Fall in love, you
Fall for the person.
They claim, when you
Fall in love, you
Fall for the soul,
And not the body.
They claim, when you
Fall in love, you
Fall for a lifetime.
We have fallen,
For the person,
For the soul,
For a lifetime,
Neverthless, when it
Comes to sexuality,
It's intricate.
They claim, we are
Fabricating, when
We are persistently,
Confronting ourselves.
Subduing who we are,
Subduing ourselves
Subduing our desire
Subduing our sexuality.
They claim, love someone
Of your religion,
Of you caste,
Of your race,
Someone of your gender ?
They declare, no
That's not how mating works.

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