Songs to Love

Songs to Love

27 October 2019

jp melville

Oh lies of equality and sex monopolizing gender

Take me on

I bring songs to love

Ambiguity, complementarity, duality, union

Songs to love I bring.

I know a poem is supposed to be beautiful,

While lies are not,

So to write of beautiful things like

The ambiguity of love

The complementarity of woman and man

The duality of two that can only manifest as one

The union that is never entente and always at play,

I weep undermined by the lies of equality and sex

As though the cognitive dissonance of false truths

As though gender is a pre-determinant

Are how we ought and only live

And there is no beauty in them.

My self is hijacked by economics

I battle for pay equity and pitch my worth identity by income

My power is hijacked by politics

I battle for positioning in hierarchy and establish antagonism by debating sides

My action is hijacked by sex

I battle for ownership of you, our progeny, our identity in the boxing ring of biological determinism.

Plastic words like production and reproduction, Marxist cants

The regime of economic scarcity and jobs and careers, sanctimonious obfuscation of capitalists

Now sadly embedded as acrolect

Our minds and deeds colonialized by that which caused our demise.

So I take the dangerous vernacular path

A path next to lost in the horrifying forest of ubiquitous universality

Of academia, digital interface, and products sold to us….

Wherein:

I place before my eyes two hands, one to this side and the other beside

Neither left nor right

But complementarity...

I allow patience to determine purpose of thought and action

Neither wrong nor right in pursuit of truth between two persons

To allow freedom and possibility that can only arise from ambiguity…

Wherein we discriminate by

Our place

Our time

Our tools

Our tasks

Our speech

Our gestures

By our us, we, you and me

Creating from within…

Wherein I seek the duality of union too obvious to be named

Hand in hand

Only you and I

With child and parent and friends…

Through unwritten harmony

Of ambiguity and complementarity...

Singing songs of welcome...

Singing songs of welcome...

Singing songs of welcome...

To love.