The Cost Of Peace

 

I don’t want to hate anymore,

And I don’t want to hurt anymore.

I just want to feel good, and safe and secure.

I want life to be a party again;

To feel happy again,

To smile in the sunshine,

And laugh in the rain.

 

I want so much for the Universe to just remove the pain.

 

Take it all away,

Make it all feel good,

Make everything be the way that it should.

No more nasty, bitter epitaph.

No more making the world feel my wrath.

 

But it only works if you take away the pain,

Because I know I have so much to gain.

Stop hurting me,

And I’ll stop acting in kind.

 

There’s so much more happiness to find.

But I can’t just let go

Without knowing I won’t be hurt again.

Because to treat me that way

Would be a sin.

 

To remove the pain,

And make me happy again,

Only to dash my eventual win,

Will bring back the bitterness,

For all eternity.

 

And I do not want that

To end up being me.

 

So take away the pain,

And make everything all right.

Make happiness like sunshine

Turn daylight into night.

 

The party never ends,

I enjoy all that I do,

Because I know

I can trust you.

 

-- R.A. Melos

 

copyright 2004

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