Standing Up For Love

Standing up for love is never an easy path,

when you live in a world that breathes on hatred.

It's a world that lacks sympathy or compassion

for the human heart while homeless children

try to sleep at night.

Every child has value inside, hoping someone

will hold them in the darkness of nights.

Never understanding the grown up things

that are going on.

Opinions we hold on our own, thinking we know

what is best, never allowing the child inside to feel

love numbing all the feelings and emotions that

come with arguments all the time.

Do we need to be right all the time?

Can we ever let go of having to prove our point.

Do we need to be harmful with our words

as anger and rage takes place?

I hear you telling me it is hopeless to spread love like

a disease, but it is so simple as hatred that spreads

through the wilderness of the dark nights when a wife

tears her husband down.

A man frustrated with the disrespect when he looks in a woman's eyes

as she mouths off hatred through her lips.

Never could go along with the understanding of logic and reasoning that chooses hate over love.

I've always believed we can get passed the hopelessness of our own souls.

Underneath the tainted memories that eat away at our minds.

Standing up for what you believe inside all the time.

So many wise teachers in life pointing my way like a guiding light

to do what is right inside of me.

Always someone hoping they can change my soul to fit their own

ways.

A lamp light in the night holding my own, always having faith that others

too, can rise up out of the poverty of life that lacks so much love.

The richest soul is the one that doesn't carry riches in their pockets.

The most successful are never the ones that have fortune and fame.

It is always the ones that seem to be left behind in the dirt and mud

falling in the aftermath of others that walk all over them in life.

Never looking back for a second at the people that they have trampled

on along their path to success.

Pretending they don't know what is going on when they leave a soul bleeding,

a broken heart along the way.

Genocide the end result of oil wars as someone has lost their child, husband, or wife.

Never admitting the mistakes they've made every day.

Every day some one dieing for money and fame hoping their name will cover the world

as blood stains cover the soil from the wealth they've stolen from those stricken

by poverty in third world countries that can't fight back.

Love never causes so much pain and suffering

or catches all the tears that fall to the ground when another one dies.

Hatred is so strong that even those that try to help have lost their lives.

Holding out a helping hand, that money is so much stronger with greed

to leave the loving on the ground.

Paying always for the greedy man's sins as children walk on buried mines.

Losing limbs in the name of peace, never bothering to clean up the mess

you leave along the way.

Somewhere along the road you chose to use hate, thinking if you boss someone

around enough it was a better way, bullying the neighbors in foreign lands

never standing up for love.

Using your religions saying it's the only way, leaving someone suffering, because

your word seems to speak the truth about God when it stars wars among nations.

Still no one acknowledges they know the truth about what is really going on.

It's better to be right, and leave someone behind, because you need to be right.

Standing up for love is what is right for me every day.

I may not be able to stop wars, or change the hatred and greed,

but I can be the example of the change that is coming with my brother's and sister's

that stand side by side speaking our voices all over the globe

realising we get along in peace and harmony, it's just the few that choose

to discriminate causing hatred through our lands and soils.

Together eventually you will hear us, that we have had enough of the pain and suffering.

All rights reserved Hattiemattiemae Spiritweaver December 12, 2011