you say that loving a girl is a sin

but how could something so beautiful and pure

something so much like a captured sunbeam shining

through the cracks in the wall you put up made of

bible verses and pitchforks

be sinful and wrong?

i am only a child and i have barely had enough

time to count the stars in the sky

and let the water of a thousand seas swirl around

my ankles or let the wind whip through my hair

as i scream melodies into the abyss

so why are you trying to twist and distort

the feelings that wrap their strong arms

around my veins and weave their way into

my bloodstream

when instead you should be teaching

people to love and accept

because i can’t help that i want to run my fingers

through the hair that goes halfway down her back

or that i want to kiss her on public transit

at two am or whisper i love you in the middle of

the night and scream it during the day

but they can help the words they 

whisper under their breath

or scream at those with rainbows painted on their faces

and they can help the knives they 

drive through the skin

of people who are too different for their taste

so instead of telling me i can’t be the only one

wearing a white dress on my wedding day

tell people who claim to come from a religion

of love that they shouldn’t stop loving me

because i love

her