Love Poem: Love Against the State
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Written by: Karo Ska

Love Against the State

Love is not romance. 
Love is not flowers, or dinners, or dates. 
Romance constructed through patriarchy,  
mixed with western notions 
of *preferably white* companionship. 


Love is wanting to change the world 
not through peace, but strength and sinew. 
Love is reaching inside yourself 
to peel away layers which are not yours, 
but coercively placed on you, 
by the status quo. 


Love is never candies or chocolate 
or holding hands in a movie theater. 
Love is always the search for revolution; 
the search for armed resistance. 
Love will never be romance. 
Love will always be us together  
Against the State.