LOVE  

    -By Robert Will

  March 2008

This system hates Love

They’d ban Love if they could

Make a rule against it

Bar Love from entering the prison

Put it on the list of contraband

next to weapons and drugs

But they can’t because Love,

real Love is unwavering

A Reality that shatters plexiglass

A blade that slices through bars

and cracks concrete

Love, is the Essence of the Struggle

in pure form

And if they do find a

way to ban Love?

Then we’ll become co-conspirators

and criminals

Shouting and screaming Love

In picket lines and protests

Inventing new ways

to smuggle Love

through both sides of the fence

At the risk of sounding ridiculous let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of Love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

– Che Guevara, in a letter to Carlos Quijano, 1965