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For The Love of What?

Does chaos and slaughter. Make you worthy at the alter. For the love of what. Love, that is not.

Photo by Noah Holm / Unsplash

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.

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