in this moment: a poem

She and I share the same flashing sign
Both feel a love that the world deems as wrong
She has her girlfriend, and I have mine
But we both hear the music of a Sapphic song
In this moment, we are friends
A fight breaks out in the middle of class
People debating our right to be exist
Our eyes lock, our bond turns to brass
And we both feel the other’s heart twist
In this moment, we are burning
A roar of a voice fills the room to its rafters
Colored like fire with hatred and rage
Lashing our love with its words and after
We put both our hearts in a steel metal cage
And in this moment, we are afraid
We skip down a street where our neon is wanted
Stripes of bright color on windows and flags
Not a trace of the people whose hearts are both haunted
Catching float-prizes inside of our bags
And in this moment, we are alight.
poem by: lorie simonian
visual by: igor pjörrt