Loving You Today
Romeo and Juliet
You see
There can’t be love
Without war
And war
Without love
You see it
I see it
We all see it
Why deny the truth?
In a world full of pain
Because you can’t stay in your lane
In a world full of hate
Because you can’t be with your soulmate
You see it now?
We are diverse
But do you really care?
You.
Me.
Her.
Him.
Them.
They.
We all love.
So why hate
At the end of the day
Let me say
Love is what brought you here in the first place
And what is keeping you alive
To this day.
Heaven help us
We’re not on our own
Not until we realize
And we truly feel ashamed
Of what we became
We will start healing
Yes I said Romeo and Juliet
And you understand
That this is not just a fairytale
This is us
Our lives today
Artist statement
In this poem I decided to share out how in modern day today we don’t only discriminate by class but by race, gender and so many other things. Love is love no matter skin color, class, gender, sexuality. In Romeo and Juliet their love can’t be because of a grudge that separates them. Today is no different , if we want to believe it or not it’s still a fact. There are so many “boundaries” we as humans are forced to live by, by our families. Some examples are “don’t date out of your race or just don’t date a race “ uglier” than the one you are” because it would be ruining the family name. There are so many things that love has to overcome in order to be. I add in my poem “ Not until we realize And we truly feel ashamed of what we became we will start healing”. In this line I was aiming to truly emphasize that not until we realize we are doing wrong we will start to break down these walls we have made ourselves separating our love. Love is something we all feel and let me tell you it’s normal, we all feel it. Its meant to be embraced and not shattered and broken like a glass window. We all love, let us love.