What they need ...
There are some days when i will read
Blogs posts and thought-posts talking about
Everything from gay rights to apartheid
And then I will want some more
So I will twitter like never before
And there some more I will get
Links and vids, that I’ll never forget
Talking more about these things
You know – poverty, pain and suffering
But then sometimes, when I’ve had enough
I simply will not read this stuff
But switch to more ethereal fare
Lines of love and of despair
Lines written from the heart
Some in love, some broken apart
And these lines I consume
Their thoughts and form I will assume
And become one of them – A poet!
A poet who can sing and write
Of joy and love and silver light
While people out keep writing on
On gay rights and other woes begone
I am here, sitting still
Writing lines on daffodils
I know people out there are dying
But sometimes –
What they need is not news,
What they need is love.