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Through Love's Great Power

By Vikram Seth*

Through love's great power to be made whole

In mind and body, heart and soul -

Through freedom to find joy, or be

By dint of joy itself set free

In love and in companionhood:

This is the true and natural good.

To undo justice, and to seek

To quash the rights that guard the weak -

To sneer at love, and wrench apart

The bonds of body, mind and heart

With specious reason and no rhyme:

This is the true unnatural crime.

* The W.H. Smith Literary Award winning author Vikram Seth has published this poem in reaction to the Indian Supreme Court’s re-criminalization of homosexuality in his homeland.

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