Power of Love/Love Power

My initial plan had been to post this in time for valentine's day but didn't meet my deadline (had a tooth extraction a day before and it still hurts like hell)

Anyway, I decided I had to do it today, not necessarily because of Valentine's day but because we (humanity) really lack love for one another.

I'm @ work-it's 7.16 pm and I just received a memo from one of our branches that a driver had been shot to death just yesterday. From eye-witness accounts, he didn't resist, he was co-operative and he was still killed. The question still remains "WHY"?

It drove home the fact that we are so superficial in our dealings: we need to have direct dealings/relationship with another person to show him/her "love" (which in this context means with decency and respect for the other persons, their belongings, their territory, their lives)

I still have one or two things to learn myself but Lord, why the aggression? why the need to infringe on others territories? why the total disrespect for others?

My thoughts are not totally collected at the moment and I hope that one day I'll do this subject better justice, but in the meantime, you could sing along with Luther Vandross "Power of Love/Love Power" lyrics I have pasted below and the song says it all. It's not about that person we are in love with (or we feel we are in love with or lust after) but love to be shared around, for the next person.

And believe it, we all have We've got love; it's the greatest power of them all and if you believe me, together we can't fall

When I say goodbye it is never for long

Cause I know our love still lives on

It will be again exactly like it was

'Cause I believe in the power of love

When you're close I can feel the power

When it's love I can always tell

Love for me is the best thing now

It's something that I know so well

Hold me closer and every minute

Of every hour, feel the power of love, yeah

Hold me tighter and take me higher

And feel the fire of the power of love

Did you know that your feelings show

You thought your love was locked up inside

But when your senses start to overload

Love is something you should never hide

You've got to believe in love

It's a feeling that's next to none

Can't stop until we are one

With the power of love

Tell everyone to try

I promise you'll reach the sky

One thing that we can't deny

Is the power of love

So close your eyes and you can feel it

Comin' straight from above, it's the power of love

You can't deny it, so don't even try it

Let the feelin' sweep you off your feet

You've got to believe in love

It's a feeling that's next to none

Can't stop until we are one

With the power of love

Tell everyone you see

How much better the world could be

For them and for you, for me

With the power of love

Ooh, ooh, ooh

My-my-my-my-my-my

You've got to feel the power

Yeah, yeah

So listen up and you will hear it

A symphony from above, it's the power of love

So glad we've found it, now there's no way around it

Just let the feeling sweep you off your feet

You've got to believe in love

It's a feeling that's next to none

Can't stop until we are one

With the power of love

Tell everyone to try

I promise you'll reach the sky

One thing that you can't deny

Is the power of love

When we walk down the street

We don't care who we see or who we meet

Don't need to run, don't need to hide'

Cause we've got something burning inside, yeah

We've got love power

It's the greatest power of them all, ooh...ooh...

We've got love power

And together we can't fall, sing it with

We've got love (Love) power

(Power)It's the greatest power of them all

Oh, we've got love (Love) power (Power)

And together we can't fall, and all the good

(We've got love) Ooh, we've got love

(Power), yes, we do(It's the greatest power of them all)(We've got love)

Love-love-love (Power)

(And together we can't fall)

We'll never fall if we've got

(We've got love) If we've got love (Power)

(It's the greatest power of them all)(We've got love)

Tell the world we got love (Power) tell the people about it(And together we can't fall)

And it's all because we've got, we've got

We've got love (Love) power (Power)

Oh, it's the greatest power of them all and if you believe me

We've got more love (Love) power (Power)

And together we can't fall, I know, can't fall

We can't fall (Love) when there's a love power (Power)

'Cause it's the greatest power of them all