Unrequited love

I hold on to the illusion of us like Americans hold on to the illusion that we’re free

My words of love and desire infringed like my first amendment rights

My fight for you as intense as the fight for the rights enshrined in the constitution

You deny my right to love, to vote, to have gender-affirming care, to make choices for our bodies,

To make choices for who we want to marry, to make choices on how we want to fucking live

I let my walls down and you erect yours like a southern boarder

Are they really stopping how I feel for you?

Or will I always find a way to your lands

To the lands of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness

A land that was taken

A land soaked in blood

A land that’s haunted

A land that only knows violence, erasure, and conquering

A land that I want to inhabit at the cost of all of my sanity

Because this land is so precious it’s worth fighting for

So we fight and revolt and move forward for liberation

Hoping one day my love

Our collective humanity will be what you seek

An unrequited love for a country who could never love me back

I wasn’t a part of your great design

Your manifest destiny never matched what I envisioned for us

The reign you’ve held on my psyche is nearing its end

Couldn’t come any sooner