I can no longer praise you.
The whispering crowd is the enemy.
Love is only love in secrecy.
I died when I found out what they knew.
Damn my passivity, and when ambitious men
Make my passivity seem self-satisfied again.
You are wanted when men want you—
Men know I love you, so they love you, too.
Finding love, gangs repeat it,
And once known, fame
Kills the secret,
Removes love from love,
And stamps it with a name.
Why marriage? When I took your hand
Love knew love has no secret plan.
The law to love is a law to ban.
And I can’t prevent it. No one can.
From love’s dream, one of us, in hate, woke.
A thought, once spoken, cannot speak again.
The moment I spoke
You gave your life to other men.