A World Without Love
One night I was dreaming in my bed fast asleep
Tossed and turned as I cried, hugged my knees in a heap
Cuz the vision I saw was too vile to repeat
Bit it needs to be shared so beware, here's the scene:
As I opened my eyes I woke up to the screaming
Of the shrieking and crying of some dying being
Stood up to help then realized that I didn't care
Lay back down, propped my head, breathed the stale city air
Flipped on a TV, turned it to channel three
Grabbed the paper, half of which was obituaries
Nothing mentioned on births, nothing written of battle
Just a column that Nasdaq "fell into the saddle"
As I turned on my iPod I scrolled to my playlists
"Love Songs" was gone and replaced by a "Hate Mix"
The flowers in my window were wilted and fading
The sun shined and seemed ghastly and aggravating
A red paper heart that my neice sent with love
Was now nothing more than I lump that pumps blood
I found myself thinking of nothing specific
While my poetry magnets seemed to wax scientific
Cuz you see without love there's nothing to vie for
Nothing to live for, breathe for, or die for
There is no celebration cuz nothing excites
And once happy couples spend cold, separate nights
There is nothing called beauty, sunsets get ignored
Babies are abandoned and money's abhorred
No sounds of music, no pictures of bliss
No hugging, no romance, no "true love's first kiss"
A tear's just for pain, a sonnet's just for reading
There's no dancing through rain and no task worth completing
The poor are left homeless, only souls are on shoes
No motivation to win, expectation to lose
I ran with a passion that most found apalling
Unique motivation throughout tripping and falling
On a journey for love and a mission for desire
To help inspire these hopeless to seek something higher
But everywhere I looked, it was a reflection
Of the desolate grime and the horrid defection
Down on my knees I cried out, in desparation
"Is there any love in this hate twisted nation?"
And then I awoke, tears cascading down
As I prayed that this fate could be twisted around
And that we would see all this damage inflicted
And make pacts of love as each heart is convicted