Conformity

There, where four and four

do not always make eight

there is room for six minus two

to be eight and not always four.

There red goes with orange

and orange with pink 

and pink with red

and black stands for light

There straight lines have curves 

and parallel lines meet

inside circles that are rectangular 

decorated by bows and arrows.

There ice is warm and even hot

on the good days fishes climb trees

the sun is a moon, the stars planets

the earth a watery desert. 

There, where being a Christian 

means more than church attendance 

and modestly covered bodies 

that judge and shame others.

There the colour of my hair

can be the colour of my blood.