If Love is a Drug ... (with thanks to Roxy Music) If love is a drug, is that why my life shines brilliant colours, sickness approaches me, then strolls on past, barely ever causing me harm? So, if love is a drug, that’s why I share the good stuff, with not just dear ones, who live in my heart & mind, but with all, especially those infected by hate. Seeing what hate can do - tragically destroy not only lives, but hopes, & dreams too, if love is a drug sharing it may vaccinate others so they too, may begin to share the love that has come to them - A viral promise of hope in times that seem hopeless. Love, not hate, when hate is more easily spread - All it takes is a glare, a stare, an ill word spoken, about a man who was choking, & silence against those doing the deed. If love is a drug, join together, spread the good there is, spread it so far the very soil is thick with it, & seeds of hate can’t take root, so hate dies. If love is a drug, right now is the time we need it, to infect the whole world with love - it may not cure coronavirus but nor will hatred, & we need hope ...
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Poems don’t arrive every day, but sometimes they do, and they demand to be written down, tweaked, and then shared. This one of those poems, written as I watched the Black Lives Matter march in America, in response to the death of George Floyd, after a police officer, abetted by other police officers, did a terrible, unforgivable thing.
This poem is my response, a cry for better things in the future, and for right now, when the world is in great need of those better things.
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 