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What Ever Happened To Love

What Ever Happened To Love What ever happened to love in the World When we were born we learnt through life to be kind and gentle and loving through our parents and family, yet as we grow older whatever we have learnt seems to disappear soon to be replaced by greed, hatred and lack of respect, we sit in front of the television watching violent scenes on the news and movies and as we are at an impressionable age we tend to absorb all of this in our minds and then go out to commit violent crimes. In the business world companies are making large profits as they go out of their way to make life unbareable for everyone by being greedy, creating large mark ups on their products that are sold, making it costly for you to buy them. When the banks loan money for you to purchase your house, and you miss a monthly payment they steal the house back from you. There is no love there, but just company greed, the same as the governments all around the World, favouring the rich over the poor and never considering the people who voted them into office. The wars created by people who have turned violent with their anti-social behaviour who vent their hatred and anger by fighting. There is absolutely no love of our fellow man. Even relationships and marriages have gone horribly wrong with boys and girls losing their common decency and respect, wanting sex for fun with their partners just for entertainment, this is all wrong and has no part in our civilised society, love as we know it has disappeared and we have nothing left but hatred, greed and unhappiness. We need to go back to a time when people were loving and kind to each other, receiving love and affection in return, creating the perfect society. This change needs to come soon before it is all too late to save this wonderful World we live in.

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Wayland Bunch

Date: 12/11/2013 4:18:00 AM

Even if a time of love never existed, the ideal was laid out very well in your poem. I do think that society would profit from some true charity, but unfortunately almost everything these days is influenced by economics. Great work.

John Ginesi
Date: 12/12/2013 3:56:00 AM

Thank you Wayland, I often base my poems on topical issues and many based on historical events, I cover so many genres as to cater for all tastes, some people love them and others criticise me for my poems, the main thing a poem should be entertaining and how it is achieved is not that important, all the best. John

Mario De Paz

Date: 6/8/2013 11:03:00 AM

Hy, John. Everything you write is correct except when you speack of going back to a time where people were loving and kind to each other. Unfortunately this never happened in the human story and man has not changed much in thousands of years. Except that a minority has always conditioned the others to commit violence. It is time to control this evil minority!

John Ginesi
Date: 6/8/2013 11:34:00 PM

The serial poem is called 'Legend of the Black Dove' it is an adventure-science fiction, period story, chapter 1 is posted and at the start of each month the next chapter, I hope you like it Mario.

John Ginesi
Date: 6/8/2013 11:31:00 PM

Hi Mario, thank you for following my poems, a lot of my poems are influenced by society and current events, it is virtually my spin on these events, others come from my imagination. I probably did a first here, by creating the first serial-poem, it is my tribute to the comics and also the cinema serials of the 1930s-1950s, man will nevr learn I feel till it is too late.