Love Poem: Unorthodox Grace
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

Unorthodox Grace

Unorthodox grace
is not limited to restoring healthy face
that your queer sexual wealthy place
is not your disgrace;

Deviation from hetero-statistical means
is your sacred gift
from EarthQueen

Outstanding difference
is not only
and always
your heavy depleting responsibility;
but also your socially enlightened
and culturally empowering opportunity.

We are not illegitimately unknown
and excommunicated
first and foremost by seed planters
overruling births that could not feel more legitimate
to those innocently born
and those giving graced birth
through organic solidarity--
graced labor rights
of compassionate re-creation.

We are also not legitimately known
by who or what we hate;
But we can become redeemed
by who and what we love.

We may have no more choice
about who
and what
and when
and where
and why
and how we express love
than choice to respond with awe
and wonder,
or boredom
and disdain,
to Earth's natural inspiring
holistic spirited Beauty
Truths of trusted grace

Revisited each dawn and dusk,
each spring and autumn,
each ocean surf and mountain breeze,
each deepening sea and elevating land,
each plant and harvest,
each beginning and ending
empowering light and dark muses

Of graced beauty
which feels racing true
and recasting healthy,
of the highest 
and deepest EarthMother legitimacy,
for safest 
universally uniting resilience,

Resonantly robust
multicolored wealth
of unorthodox mind 
embodied grace.