The Optimist’s Handbook
11.4.2017
All we need is LOVE
We’ve heard it from the Beatles
A message from above
We’ve heard it through the ages
Seen in the image of a dove
But why is LOVE the answer
To everything we need
For all we see
For all we feel
For all we believe we believe
Oh how is LOVE the answer
After all
So small a word
Pitted against a dictionary
A lamb trapped in a stampeding herd
A creek against the raging sea
David vs. Goliath
The odds indeed absurd
Just do the math
And you’ll agree
After all
So small a word
So how is LOVE the answer
To everything we need
‘Cause LOVE provides the tools
To carry out the impossible deed
How David defeats Goliath
How barren produces seed
It focuses on the good
In all we see
In all we feel
And filters out the bad
In all we believe we believe
The tools are in its letters
Its letters
They are the tools
Not just an ‘L’
It’s a shovel
More than an ‘O’
It is a hole
And the ‘V’
Also a funnel
The ‘E’
It is a bowl
Grab the shovel
Separate
Save the good stuff
For the bowl
Use the funnel
To help you tunnel
All the bad stuff
Through the hole
I learned this
By suggestion
Someone told me
Where to look
Said I’d find
The answers I seek
Within
The Optimist’s Handbook