Vikram Seth's poetic response to SC order on gay sex

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a bunch of petitions seeking review of its December 11, 2013 decision which upheld the validity of Section 377 of IPC and closed a small window opened by the Delhi high court to permit consensual gay sex between adults in private.
The SC decision has left the LGBT community with no option but to look to the government to take the legislative route to amend the penal provision to give them succour.
Author Vikram Seth, who has been vocal about his views since the SC verdict recriminalized gay sex, has put his thoughts into a poem.
Viram Seth's poem:
Through love's great power
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.
(Author's note: Any person, publication or channel may use, disseminate or publish this poem and recording freely - without permission from either The Times of India or the author.)
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