 Love Song for the Hard Times |
| © 1991 Linda Allen Written in response to the petition drive of the Oregon Citizen's Alliance to put on the ballot a measure aimed at taking away the civil rights of gays and lesbians. LOVE SONG FOR THE HARD TIMES It's the days when we're tired, words can fall like stones Days I want to hang it all and run away from home Caught between my need for you and need to be alone That's the time I need another love song Honey, it's easy to love you When things are going fine Easy to love you When the words are soft and kind Easy to love you When the love light shines What I need is a love song for the hard times Sometimes it's your job, and you seem hard and cold And I can see how it robs your dreams and bends your soul How many times the best of you's been bought and sold Hard to find the lover and the love song And I'm not often kind when love seems far away My silence builds a wall as hard as stone and clay And you're the one who calls me, but I walk away I pray you'll keep on searching for our love song Well love songs can be foolish, just a partial view Love songs can be rivers seeking something new But our love keeps on aging like a polished stone And here's another poem, another love song |