Ode to Desperate Wanting

Inspired by The Urban Poet








Your face haunts
Your words taunt
Your promises flaunt
That which daunts
Your memory warrants
A flow of currents
The heart beckons













Hercules
Achilles
Adonis
Tease
Appease
Oh, please
You beast!
Feast
On my bliss
While I cease
To breathe













How sweet
Your bitterness
So replete
With emptiness
I deplete
My happiness
Must needs
The loneliness











Lick
My bleeding wounds
Suck
My poisoned heart
Wet
My scorching soul
Finger
My ruffled pride
Thrust!
My virgin mind
Quicken!
My staggered thoughts
Come
My departing pulse
Fill
My dank spirit
Awaken
My tired inspiration


Republished, circa May 2005