You feel numb, Oh so numb.

Yet here you are feeling dumb.

It’s cold. Oh so cold. Your heart feel likes it’s about to explode.

What’s the one thing you can’t live without?

The moving love.

That’s all I need.

The falling love of my mother, my father, my community and the earth that surrounds my feet.

I could be in love with the leap of faith that I have provided with myself

But being by myself will not satisfy the need or the craving I have to feel the love

Just like The Black Eyed Peas, Where’s the Love?

The Love that will no longer exist if children are having sex at the age of 13

Or kids pretending to be in love with kids just to be with one another.

Or where’s when you feel the ecstatic feeling of being in love when you’re just a sophomore in high school?

Why can’t I not live without it?

Why not feel like on cloud nine or feel like there's a sign when it comes to dreams?

Or feel the stupid butterflies that we feel once we see one another

Or simply the loving touch of a mother or father

The giggles of a brother or sister

Why can’t I live without it?

If I were the only person in the world I would be ruined and corrupt

A corrupted mind that’s full of darkness and not brightness

The loving, soulful, young child will not only be blurry but it will be a faint memory of drowned memory

A child that wouldn’t be able to find his way around the ruins of our towns.

They would be walking down the streets selling drugs

They would stay with a frown

You were like a shadow to my light, it would be another start.

That’s love, if it wasn't there, I would call

Where are you now?

I would’ve been faded.

Faded into the depths of my dark sea, with swimming fish running wildly in the sea.

I would’ve been anonymous.

Without the love I feel for my peers, my family, my life, there would be no life, no purpose.

I would’ve been faded.

So why can’t I live without it?

Cause I cannot bear not falling in love again or seeing the smiling face of my brother or sister, or the simple hug of my mother or my father.

I wouldn’t be able to bear not to see my cousins grow up and go to college or get married or see where my life will take me.

I will see a loveless life like if I was in a desert without any water.

The drought will continue.

That would be the one thing I cannot live with.

I need love

Just Love

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