because it needs me
Words fall
Like rain down foggy windows.
There is something
gentle
in the silence.
What can’t I live without?
What can’t I live without?
It is a question without an answer –
With a thousand answers –
And yet every time it comes back
To four simple letters
That fall
Like rain down foggy windows.
L
o
v
e
love like summer.
like sunlight and water on skin;
The love that sings
And shouts and laughs;
The love that swells
And softens and grows
Like flowers in the hearts of people in the crowd.
Does it sound contrived
So say I do not know how to live without
The love that springs like
Water in the desert?
Maybe to you I sound
Like those children of
An era past –
All you need is love,
Love is all you need –
Or maybe to you I sound
Like an idealist
Who knows nothing of the world.
You say love
like it is a prayer
Like it is sacred
Like the more you say it the less it means.
I wear love
On my sleeves –
I hand it out like flyers on street corners;
Pass it through my teeth and roll it on my tongue
And breathe it into the open air.
It does not mean
What it means in romance movies;
Love
Means freedom;
Means justice;
Means hope.
Some believe that love was only important
To the generation who wove flowers into braided hair
And spoke of peace in crowded coffee shops.
What they don’t know
Is we are that generation.
We weave flowers into braided hair
And speak of peace in crowded coffee shops.
I belong to this messy, fucked up generation
I live my life in moments;
and when I look into the future
I am looking for
One thing:
Love.
We have lived –
In this messy, fucked up generation –
For one thing:
Love.
We measured our life
In love and cups of coffee.
You say we know nothing.
What do we know
If not love?
I need love
Because it needs me.
It must be carried
Into the future on the shoulders
Of my messy, fucked up generation
And we will carry it with pride.
You words fall
Like rain down foggy windows.
And I refuse to live
In this silence.