ej writes now

Salt in the Wound

They say that the hearts and minds are on your side
They say that the hearts and minds are on your side
They say that the hearts and minds are on your side
They say that if you love what you do you never work a day in your life but they don’t understand they don’t understand that love is work but it is not labor they don’t understand that I do not dream of labor but I do dream of love they do not understand the true wonders of love the true horrors of love the fact that there are not actually horrors are there that love is unambiguous in that way that it may be the only thing that is unambiguous in that way that it may put salt in the wound that it may add insult to injury but it will be wonderful and even if I am wrong I am right I am too right too perfectly right they don’t understand that love is waking up in with blood on your hands waking up with the blood that we all have on our hands and choosing to keep going and keep loving and continue on and continue on and continue on and continue on they say all these untruths and these mendacities all these lies they cannot see that all that is solid melts into air they cannot see the true nature of the world and our relations to our kind to each other they do not understand what we owe to each other they do not understand the power they do not understand that the only horrors the only true horrors of love are that rained down on them when they try to rip love away they do not understand the depths the vastness of the oceans of love they do not understand they do not speak the truth except when
They say that the hearts and minds are on your side
They say that the hearts and minds are on your side
They say that the hearts and minds are on your side