I see the darkness in the world
and stare into the corners of its ugly truths
and witness the obscenely criminal neglect
of our own humanity
I hear the silent echoes escaping the abyss
from the pleas of the lost and the lonely and the desperate
and I recognize my own voice among them

I feel the fear of love being lost and thrown away and ignored

And I hurt and I weep and I worry

But I do not turn away
not from the darkness
or the ugly truths
or the criminal neglect

I break the silence and scream
to the lost
and the lonely
and the desperate

And I reach my hand to love
for I will not let it get lost
or be thrown away
or ignored
and i will not let it die in fear

For without love
the world would be swallowed by darkness
consumed by its ugly truths
crumble from its own neglect

but with love
we can survive the darkness
sink to the bottom
and rise back out of the abyss
help the lost and the lonely
and the desperate and our selves

and we can hurt for love
and we can weep for love
and have no need to worry