Just Love Them

People I meet...

on the street...

in a store...

a gas station...

across the nation...

around the world...

I hear the same thing...

fed up...

giving up...

on one another...

letting down...

letting go...

just too hard...

can't do it anymore...

sullen faces...

dirty gazes...

rudeness rules...

like someone dropped...

the sand of hatred...

from the sky...

people rather die...

than try to...

give a little love...

give a little love a try...


anymore...

stop...

stop...

stop...

close those pretty eyes...

forgive...

forgive...

forgive...

open up that place...

where love once lived...

invite it back inside...

room to let...

and hold it's hand...

this time...

and kiss...

kiss it's sweet...

sweet face... 

you are the grace...

of your desire...

to set the world...

afire with love...

begins with us...

not our neighbor...

then go out...

mingle smile shine...

and be amazed...

the attraction...

that you are...

so loving...

and so beautiful...

and truly...

truly brave...

touch...

really touch...

someone gently...

show you care...

not falsely...

begin to heal...

the hurt of billions...

just love them...

love them...

like the little child...

you were...


Written by Bruce James Clyde 2015

Art: By Khalil Gibran