For The Love of What?

First published in The T4T Project Zine Issue Two, a zine by/for/about trans artists & storytellers of color: https://issuu.com/t4tproject/docs/issuetwo

Content Warning : Religious Trauma, Violence, Sexual Assault

For the love of what?

Would you give up bad habits and strife

For a chance at a better afterlife 

Reject worldly lust and laughter 

For a glorious hereafter 

Rebel against the rules of man 

Obey the one with a higher plan 

Deny your mother 

Forsake your brother

Would you pick up a sword

Wear armour and go abroad 

Sacrifice human life 

For mansions in paradise 

Pillage and rape 

To further your faith 

Does chaos and slaughter 

Make you worthy at the alter 

For the love of what

Love, that is not.