I Am Hungry

I am hungry for love and waiting for it

I wonder when my love will be noticed and accepted
I hear them screaming for change
I see the ears of salvation hacked off,
trodden on and sold back to them
I want to hear them hear the screams

I am hungry for love and waiting for it

I pretend to pretend for recognition
I feel the weight of carelessness and hate
I touch the bars of the prison gate of our dreams
I worry that we will never see our true selves staring back
I cry at myself
For them
For us

I am hungry for love and waiting for it

I understand that we exist
I say that we shouldn’t.
Destroy it all and start again in the name of truth and love
I dream that tomorrow we will wake up and realize what we are
Before it is too late
I try my life away
I hope that all of our love will be noticed and accepted

I am hungry for love and waiting for it