By Roti
I take you on a leash
You say
I am angry and greedy
It’s interesting how you are
changing the game
You see
Can you actually see?
You are changing the game
Who gave you this power
Where comes this privilege
I want to change the game
For my people
For our freedom
For love
You say I can´t
You say
I am mixing up my private stuff
Oh wow
Do you see where this heads
Can you see this?
Can you actually
You who objectified me
You who misgendered me
with words
with looks
You who tried to appropriate me
my story
my pain
my name
My name is Franzis
How hard is respecting
How hard is opening up
Look
You continue oppression
You continue white supremacy
You continue pain
Stop
I said stop
Stop
Stop
You keep moving forward
Not knowing
Not seeing
You hurt me
You continue hurting yourself
You´re taking yourself on a leash
Can you actually feel it?
You don’t want freedom
With freedom comes responsibility
For the house you built
For renovating the materials
that you could only use
Because you took it from the ones
that you are now trying to own
I am not an inhabitant of your house
You are not telling me where my room is
You are not telling me what I must do
I am building my own house
That I will never own
Knowing that this house is ours
Built by a community of love
And by love
I mean dignity
And by love
I mean trust
And by love
I mean variety
And by love
I mean unease
I invite you to come
But please no leashes allowed
Here we are free
And we are proud
Embracing becoming
Embracing the leashes that were put on us
Only good for a queer kinky party
Dismantling it
This poem was created out of the Queering Resilient Revolt Method Lab in Rosenheim.
