The Four Letter Word

I hear the four letter word

and in my stomach I feel sick.

Because we drop it when we want it

then we decide to pick it up quick.

It's useful when we need it,

helping to deliver the final blow.

But it used to have more meaning

and some of us will just never know

How precious the word should be kept.

Only leaving the lips when it's meant.

Not thrown around for kicks.

Maliciously melted, beaten, and bent.

That's how things seem to work.

Things now have lost value unfortunately.

Relationships are a mere click away

and it's the new fad to be a divorcee.

Because we want what we can't have.

"Honestly, I need you so, so bad.

And now that I have you go away

Because you suddenly make me so mad."

When will this crazy cycle end?

When, when I say it I mean it, love.

That word not said for every person.

So common as the bright stars above.

I am sorry for my cynical banter. But,

On life's uneven road I constantly swerve.

It's hard to hear the word used for a lay

So, instead, I'll follow Woody Allen, I lurve..

You.