Jesse Rey Tovar

I am someone

 

I became so

because I manifested a dream into reality

A dream I loved

Writing line after line of preparation

Pouring myself in the noise

 

–the internet

 

For now, I am going to take advice

I found there

 

Love you

Love on yourself

 

I have to love me

even if it means pulling out

 

For now, love on yourself first

and foremost

before you get back out

on a limited basis

to enjoy the wild and

those you know

in and out the noise

 

Title from "The Unearthing" by B.V.

 

Love can change the tide of war

 

War started over a presumed dearth of dancers. This war, recorded in lyric, guitar, and electronic drums. War became a pop phenomenon. War retold in tribute, in altering keys, contrasting the major pop hit musically.

Many heard about this war out and about, in stores, in online ads, just about everywhere. Some can recite notable lines: bad blood, mad love, problems, deep cut.

A few years later, an answer song kept the war tides high. Some key lines: tired, retire, expired, liar. Some say this tune is not a pop phenomenon. Either way, it records this war in another perspective.

More years passed, finally, one handed out an olive branch. Olives are significant because their oil is a compliment to unleavened bread and not so strong wine for a gathering of two. Anywhoo, the other involved in this war made chocolate chip cookies, another type of unleavened bread. And just like that, the war ended. Love healed a broken friendship.

People want to know how love can change the tide of war, so this is one how.

 

Title from "How to Save a Life" by J.P.R. which reminds you (maybe) and me of that Coldplay hit