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.
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