with supreme contempt

True I was once a homophobe

raised on tales of men in priestly robes

and by my own lack of common sense

but then it is verily my only defense

that when to such beliefs I clung

I was as naïve as I was young

but time set my ideas straight

love is love and that’s what’s great

but what to say of these gentlemen

and the poison in their pens

when you’re as educated as you’re old

what’s the excuse for a heart so cold?

for it’s bad enough to bear a grudge

but so much worse to maim and judge.

ram cobain