A Difference Between Doubt and Despair

Let's be honest, it's easier to be cynical,
To take things as literal and strip of their meaning.
But don't you find it demeaning, to not believe in love?
That above all that there is, that there's no story behind the scenes?
Sometimes it's just hard to see, between you and me.

So why is hope something a little bit more than we stand?
We act with grand designs but then we create our own suffering.
Look, we all want to be something, that's all fine and great,
But we must move at a faster rate if we are ever to escape gravity
Or we'll all wake up with a cavity where our soul once lived.

We are all looking for that one special "experience"
So when we finally cross that distance we're tempted to trivialize it
Commercialize it so we aren't alone with the discovered truth about ourselves.
Ring all the bells, wave all the white flags, and hear your swan song of selling out.
If your devout faith is to doubt then you will find every way out of believing.

Alone at Night