Oh, Merciful Lord, what have the haters and prudes done
to David's beautiful song about his Love for Jonathan?
They have redacted and altered it, to conceal and shun
the truth of his Love, and have ascribed it to his son---
a philosopher, not a poet was righteous King Solomon.
The prejudiced fops are militant exacerbators,
sowers of discord, and of unrest---accelerators.
Long-haired, shirtless and barefoot in my adolescence,
I shall not be dissuaded by their pride's foul countumescence.
I know the nature of my soul, and the full truth of
the way it needs, and was designed by You, to love.
I do not care if I have caused these selfish agitators
even the least bit of shrill, vociferous annoyance:
I have known love like David knew, and its buoyance.
Starward