Loved

In our world today

everyone seems to want the same thing

to be loved.

There is money and there are cars

but nothing can compare

to the need for love.

We crave it

and in our desperation 

we crowd each other out.

We judge each other 

all in an effort to lift ourselves up.

But the trick is

when everyone is lifting themselves and pushing the others down

everyone ends up falling. 

Until you find a little girl

staring at the pictures of the perfect models in the magazines.

Wishing that she too could be perfect

and she too could be loved.

Never understanding 

that she already is.

It is because of this greed

of this need for love

that we are all broken.

Because where love can bind us together

when used wrong

it can also tear us apart.