Since love, of course, was not some course
they'd deign to teach in public schools,
you never studied, or did not learn

the mathematics of it all
geometries of surface sense
the calculus of indifference

love's scientific disciplines
physics of colliding views
geologies of hardened hearts

love's liberating arts and craft
poetics of devotion's forms
more tolerant philosophies

love's multilingual exercises
emotions' etymologies
interpreting beyond a voice

or love's many histories
its renaissance of reverence
and revolutions over self.

But let us cover what was missed.
No cramming, books, or class this time.
Compassion's now our syllabus.

These open arms: academy.
Embrace this otherness once feared.
Graduate from hate. Come here.