Need::Want
Hold the life with both of your sweaty palms
till it stops wriggling and warms up to you
Hold it tightly so it doesn’t fall like a fistful of sand
slipping between the cracks
Tell life loudly in its ears, you want it
more than it can ever imagine.
Tell life, you have waited too long now to be left
alone and you know the taste of loneliness.
That sour taste of the curdled milk left on your kitchen countertop
Tell life, it’s not too late cause there is always a warm nook in everybody
Tell life, that you are hungry and craving for just a fleeting touch
like a lover meeting you after a decade and you lock gaze with him
for a fleeting moment to unabashedly declare love you have been hiding
for so long, to declare it boisterously that you don’t want him, you need him.