What we're up against

The world has put its weight heavily around my neck,

it’s a noose which threatens to strangle me if I jump. 

So I keep my feet firmly on the ground, 

not out of fear but out of love. 

Love for you. 

Love is greater than the addiction. 

Love is greater than it all. 

We’re up against the devil,

who will stop at nothing to separate us. 

He wants to destroy love. 

He wants to make us believe that the world is not that heavy. 

That the world is a place filled with opportunities to start again and that it is free. 

That time is not a consideration of cost, of investment. 

That what we share is of no value.

We’re up against the power of the world and its alluring ways.

For me, he paints a picture of freedom, 

for you, he says the same. 

A different kind of freedom.

Freedom from reality. 

For me, freedom from the unreal. 

He’s lying, how can he be telling the truth? 

It is not post-modernism. 

There cannot be one truth for me and one for you. 

He lies.

This is our truth – that I love you and you love me. 

The strata of lies and deceit are not derived from our minds, but from him.

Let’s take away the layers of time and lies and go back to the days when we couldn’t bear to be without each other. 

When we were young. 

When we dreamed dreams and sat in waiting. 

Let’s go back and make plans for a new future.

A happy time. 

The happiest. 

Let’s go there, 

just you and me against it all.