To Love and to Leave

If I let my mind wander

If I sit here and ponder

What wonders will my mind create?

And if I let my thoughts fly

Until my head hits the sky

Can I reach that heavenly place?

Of passionate loving

And creation's becoming

Reach a world of my own design?

Where the hate that haunts me

And the troubles that taunt me

Can dissipate like mist in the wind?

Or must I stay here

Bathed in the fear

Of surviving in this bastardly world?

I guess I'll just pray

That if I must stay

I can learn to love God's broken earth.