8955 If Things were Perfect
[by S. David] [art by Johannah O’Donnell]

But they’re not
Perfect
Even here
A world you
Do not know
Cannot see
And probably
Would not
Imagine
But she
Faced
Discrimination
Bigotry
Racism and
Specieism*
Call it
What you will
For even
The thought
Of loving him
But he was
Willing to
Suffer all
The insults
Challenges
For choosing
So far
Beneath him

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*poetic licence