Love Does Not Answer

I need an answer

I want to know why

I want to push you against the floor

And demand a better answer than that

Don’t say love

Because love does not answer

Why we do these terrible things to each other

These wonderful things for each other

Cannot explain the robber barons 

who made money 

Stuffing bodies into factories 

With the clanking of the machines a constant reminder

Of their childrens' sick eyes

Why they used this money

to build parks 

and to fund most of this countries public libraries

Love cannot explain all the revolutions 

And the tanks that come

To crush the fragile bodies of the boys

Who only dreamed to see their parents 

Breathe without fear

To see the huddled bodied in the street

Warm 

Love cannot explain how in one apartment a girl learns to read

And in the next apartment a different girl is raped

Love cannot explain

So give me an answer

Other than the news

Telling me how we are going to kill this world that we live in

But die valiantly fighting to stop ourselves

From killing it