PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

by Jeph Johnson

(Apologies to Larry Norman) 

You can be a righteous rocker

Or a TV preacher
You can be most anything
You can be Kanye West
Wear a bulletproof vest
You can load your crib with bling
You can be a man who pays his taxes
With a credit card he maxes

But without love, you ain't nothing,

Without love
Without love, you ain't nothing,
Without love

You can be a high school teacher

Caught behind the bleachers
Or a white knight on his steed
You can learn to take your lumps
Or be Donald Trump
With more money than you need
You can be America's next top model
Or any name on that cola bottle

But without love, you ain't nothing,

You ain't nothing without love
Without love, you ain't nothing
Without love

Without love, you ain't nothing,
You ain't nothing without love
Without love, you ain't nothing
Without love

You can be glam rock singer

Or the team's third stringer
You can even be the President
Or you can be the Family Guy
Watching C. S. I.
While you tweet current events
You can twerk up close with a Christian
Or go up and down on a piston

But without love, you ain't nothing

Without love
Without love, you ain't nothing,
Without love, love

Without love, you ain't nothing
You ain't nothing without love
Without love, you ain't nothing
Without love