HERE LIES A QUEER

After Amanda Gorman... not all hills can be climbed. Some lead to death.

HERE LIES A QUEER

         after Amanda Gorman

That hill we die on will be
blood stained,
dripping with the miscarriage of
justice — just us
breaking through the silence
for those muted by dogmatic bigotry,
that gift handed down by generations bound
by hatred and fear. Hear us —
when we say queer. Hear us —
when we shout queer. Bury us —
under the epitaph HERE LIES A QUEER. We will clap back
from the graveyard.

Kåre Enga [180.44] (25.mai.2023)

12 lines free verse

Modified from "HERE LIES A QUEER [180.44] ((8)) " 

"Poet Amanda Gorman spoke out after her poem The Hill We Climb, which she recited at President Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, was removed from an elementary school in Miami-Dade County, Florida."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/author-of-poem-removed-from-florida-school-fir...