This post is part of the A to Z 2020 Challenge. I have decided to theme the posts around personal and societal responses to the Covid 19 crisis, including my resumption of Blogging!
Love is in the air
For young lovers in lockdown
While lost loves
Dream of love locked up
Not locked down.
Love is the drug
That takes you to a different place
Consumes you from within
Tricking your cells
To accept false flags
Before breaking your heart.
It’s a thin line between love and hate
Love the time we have
Hate the loss of freedom
Saving money because we can’t spend it
Losing money because we can’t earn it.
I hope that I don’t fall in love
Let me be a survivor
Don’t wanna be a deep-sea diver
Or win a million fivers
Just let me live and love a little longer.
The one who loves you
Hides in plain sight
You never gonna feel its bite
Covid 19 –
Who loves ya baby…
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Love is in the air
John Paul Young
Love is the drug
Roxy Music
It’s a thin line between love and hate
Annie Lennox
I hope that I don’t fall in love
Juliet Turner
The one who loves you
The Divine Comedy
Love is in the air
For young lovers in lockdown
While lost loves
Dream of love locked up
Not locked down.
Love is the drug
That takes you to a different place
Consumes you from within
Tricking your cells
To accept false flags
Before breaking your heart.
It’s a thin line between love and hate
Love the time we have
Hate the loss of freedom
Saving money because we can’t spend it
Losing money because we can’t earn it.
I hope that I don’t fall in love
Let me be a survivor
Don’t wanna be a deep-sea diver
Or win a million fivers
Just let me live and love a little longer.
The one who loves you
Hides in plain sight
You never gonna feel its bite
Covid 19 –
Who loves ya baby…
——————————————————————
Love is in the air
John Paul Young
Love is the drug
Roxy Music
It’s a thin line between love and hate
Annie Lennox
I hope that I don’t fall in love
Juliet Turner
The one who loves you
The Divine Comedy
Lovely poem!
Thanks LT – so many creative things came out of lockdown and I think this poem reflects the roller coaster that was Covid…
This so accurately speaks to the opposites and conflicts being encountered through all this. This line is especially powerful: "Just let me live and love a little longer."
Thank you Shannon – it’s the heart of the human tragedy that our lives are so brief and fragile…
Andrew, thanks for sharing this poem with me for ‘Poetry Partners’!
I’ve responded to it and published it here:
https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/07/30/love-or-live-feel-or-fall/
<3
David
Wow! David! I didn’t know what to expect and it’s amazing. I don’t know the songs whose titles you have incorporated and I want to listen to them but for now it’s enough to say it feels great to be partners in this, thanks…
❤️
Thanks Lesley…