A Signifying Dissonance

Cynics and hedonists
All want the same thing
The cynics deny it
The hedonists imagine it
But neither obtain it
The romantics want it
The realists think
It's not worth the trouble
The optimists idolize it
Yet never see it properly
The skeptics haven't proven it
One way or another
Philosophers ponder it
Wanderers run from it
Poets write songs of it
Egotists laugh at it
Warriors fight battles for it
All for one tiny, unobstrusive
Yet earthshaking word
Love