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Looking for Love by Janet Martin © 2009 She hides in the closet and covers her ears The darkness her solace to hide all the tears While Mommy and Daddy are fighting and yelling When can she be happy; there's really no telling? As she whispers to no one and cries to the walls "I just need someone to love me, that's all" In that dank little corner, the darkness her cover She can't help but wonder. Will anyone love her? And she cries…..looking for love With sad eyes she searches through the smoke and the gloom A drunken hero lurches across the bar-room Is he coming to see her, to tell her she's sweet? Maybe he will take her to a room down the street In the arms of a stranger, the darkness her cover She'll risk all the danger; she needs someone to love her She cries as she's thinking and hating her deed She weeps as she's drinking and drowning her need And she cries…..looking for love She panics in fear for soon she will show And people will sneer for her deed they will know She weeps for the sorrow that grows in her womb No hope for tomorrow, how loveless her doom So she looks for an answer then heeds cold advice That snuffs out the heart-beat with fingers of ice She lies in a puddle of hatred and grief Recalls how she'd huddle in the dark for relief And she cries…..looking for love Someone is standing in the door of a chapel She sees they are handing out shiny red apples Her deep inner hunger is a cold raging fire She can wait no longer for her life-time desire She's drawn to the door by this kind-hearted smile But she's reaching for more than the fruit on a pile As she gazes in longing at the warm, tender face Her search for belonging accepts love's embrace And she cries…..looking for love And now there is peace, there's a light in her gloom A sweet, sweet release from her valley of doom Some one has told her of a great God above How He longs to hold her in His arms of love Now she has a Father, a Savior and friend Her searching is over as joyful tears blend With tears of great sorrow for days of deep loss But there's hope for tomorrow at Calvary's cross And she smiles……for she has found love |
 This poem won 1st place for the May 2009 poetry contest |
This poem may be use within Christian ministries for any non-profit purpose without requesting permission.