Coping with Love

Love, some say

Is a fleeting flirtation

Temporary lust

That won’t last
Coping with Love_1Love, others say

Is a distraction

Is evol spelled backward

Against the human need

For prosperity and greed

 

Proof is in the racial conflicts

in Ferguson

In the religious battles in the

Middle East

Hate is rampant

And natural, some claim

A human disease

 

I disagree

I say love

Is in our DNA

That we are born

To connect

To care for each other

 

Some of us

Misplace it growing up

Most of us

Still hang on to it

Like a trophy cup

 

Proof is in me

Having slipped to the underworld

You plucked me up

Fatally sick

You nurtured me back to health

Like a mother bear to her baby cub

Proof is in you

Wet and cold

Some stranger will hold your hand

Offer you a coat

Return you to dry land

 

Proof is in every Peter, Paul and Mary

Out and lost

Someone will help

Bring them back inside

And new songs begin to flow

It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why…

It don’t matter, anyhow

 

Things may look bad now, my friend

As they do to me

A short-term set-back

Yesterday’s suffering and pain

Like a fictional old movie stored in our brain

Free ourselves, we have a choice

Let it be gone with the wind

Rhett and Scarlett moved on

So can we

 

Hope is here, imagine it

Love is here, feel it

It always has been

Coping with Love_2

*** The End ***

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