My Love Is Just Like Yours

My love is just like yours

I am another
One of you.

My love is not “queer love”.
It flows from the same
Illogical place.

The way you wanna kiss your woman
Is the way I wanna kiss my man.
The way she wants to kiss her man
(Or woman)
Is too.

Why you gotta say
My voice is gay?
I can play with the big boys
And punch above my weight.
I can take it like a man,
Take a kick to the soul
Just like you can.

You — who can read,
Who can think:
My heart breaks in the same way.
In the same way
I can fall for the wrong,
Fall for the right,
Fall for the left.

The feelings in your guts,
in your cock, in your nuts,
The same heat in your mind,
The same Truth,
you will find.

Stop it with the queer compendiums,
The anthologies,
The collections, already!