Remembering John Lennon

If John Lennon was not gunned down that faithful day in December 8, 1980, he would have been 70 years old today, October 9.

What impact in the music industry would he have contributed if he had lived to see this day I can only surmise; but definitely, the world missed out on a lot of LOVE related songs.

Although you really can’t take the rock and roll in John’s music he has metamorphosed to a hippie activist during his solo career and wrote songs promoting peace, love and civil rights.

His anti-war advocacy created songs like “Imagine”, “Give Peace a Chance”, and “Happy Christmas (War is Over)”. But like in many an artist’s creativity, John’s overwhelming love for his family spurred a lot of beautiful love songs. How did John view love? Well, he actually wrote it down in a song aptly titled “Love”.

Happy Birthday John!

“Love”by John Lennon

Love is real, real is love,
Love is feeling, feeling love,
Love is wanting to be loved.

Love is touch, touch is love,
Love is reaching, reaching love,
Love is asking to be loved.

Love is you,
You and me,
Love is knowing,
We can be.

Love is free, free is love,
Love is living, living love,
Love is needing to be loved.

To Kill a Mockingbird

A mockingbird sits
perched on a song,
Throating the mellifluous
voices of cherubs,
Cleaning our miseries---
With the innocense of their opus...
His glolden brown hair
Glistening,
In the early morning sun,
Rousing us with music
Of yet another
glorious day...
But,
The hunter in men
Harkens for blood
Anesthesing all morals
Chained to the lust
that so palgued him...
And so,
The men go about the hunt
Seeking his prey with hawk eyes
Mind a blank
Except for the thrill
of the kill...
In the meantime,
The mockingbird is unperturbed
Unmindful of the looming specter
of danger,
Singing his repertoire
In blissful naivite...
Then ran
The echoing boom of death
And the predator whistling away
Satisfied with the blood
that so stained the earth,
While the mockingbird lies still...
(inspired by the book by Harper Lee)