Love Songs

Love songs are blunt
nowadays
Actually saying nothing but
take me
take me away
It doesn't matter
For even before the song is sung
the meaningless sets in
takes away
the love
and the song

Ending in a howl or a cry
of sexual satisfaction
or of heartbroken
and frontal rejection

Love songs echo the generation
and even as a spurned lover
sings
and cries
in a corner
of his room his world
his
or hers
cries too usually
in a corner

At the cruelty
meted out
at the partnership

Cries and moans
presently mean more
and stand for
Love songs useless

--andoy, 21 September 1987