Desperation

The lightbulb exists,
But electricity doesn’t.
A single lightbulb has the power to light up the sky,
A spark of electricity can illuminate the world.

A crowd of people,
Standing here.
Broken hearts,
And empty lives,

Staring up at the holes in the sky,
Filling them with lightbulbs high,
Without a spark,
Without a spark,

A single spark,
To light up their lives,
The people staring at the sky,

“There will be a spark,
The sky will light,
The world will see,”

People chant and the crowd sings,
None of them believing a thing,
But they have to try,

They have to try,
They have to sing,
They have to pretend,
This is the real thing,

They cling to hope,
They cling to hope,
Fading memories of light,
Filling in the current holes,

The broken souls,
And empty lives,
Staring at the sky tonight,

Until the spark takes flight,
Until the spark takes flight.