Defiance with Love

We sang of love when music was dying under the fervent
We whirled to the music when dance was decreed vulgar
We made love in bold friezes when murals were sterilized
We drank from ponds of soma when spirits were evaporating
We upwelled from the burning soil when the boots trampled
We held onto memories of lovers when emotions were crushed
We bled into the barren streets when passion was banished
We flamed with our young bodies when the embers were doused
We lived in defiance when our humanity was denigrated
We stampeded into public squares under the curfewed moonlight

The years age into eras and monarchies grow and die
Nations spring up rifting across peoples of the earth
But nations do not outlive the embers of our love
For our love is fuelled by a thirst for a warm embrace
We burn our selves to feed the flames of passion
We shall live long beyond the stars above our heads
We shall paint the black night with our kisses red
We shall unfurl our dead selves across the infinite void
And kiss and love and sing and dance and laugh without a fear