POEM 002
Wanting by Derek Keeping
Whatever you’ve got even if its a lot,
there is usually something else that
your things are not.
Maybe its bigger, maybe its wider,
maybe its longer, maybe its higher,
maybe it does what your things don’t do
or might alter peoples opinion of you.
Now this thing, these things, you don’t really need,
but some desire inside you grows like a seed,
and suddenly its all you can focus on,
you don’t want something short, you want something long!
You want it so much getting it becomes daunting,
and so stress forms like a ghost and its you that its haunting,
and your want you disguise in the shape of a need,
and your comfort you’d never describe as greed.
So all warm and cozy, you’ll be adamant,
that you can’t be without some other thing that you want.
Countenance Maker 