The State of Being

Who really cares?

Are you really there?

When life’s too much to bare

With all the personal tragedies we all share,

With all the powerless deities in the air

Faith has become the ultimate dare

Natural disasters are the Devil’s lair

Some of us wake up to a nightmare,

Some of us enveloped by a shimmering light

Snuffed out like a candle in the middle of the night

Most are too self-centered to notice another’s plight

Only the lonely seek arms to hold them tight,

Throwing away love like it never did exist

Forgetting the first time you ever kissed

Denying the beauty you’ve always missed

Amazingly all the wonders that you resist,

It’s just the state of being you can’t recognize

How did your heart become so fossilized?

How much of your love can you recognize?

Reflections of all that you’ve finalized,

Once I could appreciate the calling of a bird

Somehow thankfulness must have occurred

The longing for love and those old feelings are stirred

The passionate cries of a lover I once heard,

 Who really cares?

Are you really there?

When life’s too much to bare

With all the personal tragedies we all share.