~*~ Wants and Needs ~*~

The very wise of us
Say that there are only
Three things we really need:
Air to breath,
Water to quench our thirst,
And food to fill our bellies.

I guess they have never ever ever
Awakened one perfect day
With the sun shining happily
In a sky blue as a robin's egg,
With the leaves flittering and fluttering
In a breeze that softly dances here and there,
With the twittering and chirping of the
Birds singing their wake-up song,
All filling the world around us.

And they have never ever ever
Opened eyes dusted with the dreams of the night
To have memories wash over them
Like a freezing, cold rain on a winter's day.
To feel their hearts gripped in a vise of fear
Before it plummets to the depth of despair
Buried in the foulest of feelings.

If the very wise of us felt
This overpowering aching hunger,
This dryness in our throat that croaks
For something more than liquid,
This air that is gone from life,

Then maybe they could understand
Things can never be right
Until
Even a tiny moment of the love
That has fled somewhere in the night
Returns.

Sometimes Love Is a Need.