Have you experienced Want?

 

(A lone voice whispers)

Am I the sacred answer you all still seek

In 2025

As you thrive

You the strong

Or you maybe the weak

Could I but be your embodiment

Of a divine heaven or much-needed spell in hell

To increase the flow of every single red blood cell

Some say I’m the sweetest lullaby dark angels sing

A sonnet of damnation or intense pleasure for the soul

As it grows as life's golden wedding bells still rings 

Am I but the luscious green meadow of sensuous experiences 

Everyone wishes to go through

From the curious to the notorious 

Knee deep

Before they leave this land

To trespass to who knows

My weapons have started and ended so many wars

On personal and world stages 

And history throughout the ages is littered with my scars

So am I but the all-consuming knife

To pierce the cold hearts and lonely minds

Of those who linger lost 

Below the long tall shadows

Desperately seeking something

To reignite their light

I've been called the true life force of all creatures

Big or small

Untamed or just broken

Ancient woodland groves 

Still sing pagan spoken songs of me in the darkness

Many old names are conjured and woken 

But only one remains

I live to revisit shamefully darkly lit places

And opulent palaces of loquacious words of lascivious sin

As it happens 

Bedrooms

Woods and hotel rooms 

Still carry the lingering sensual

Scent of my many visits

And they all pine and

All pray for my return

As twenty-five minutes ends

Like mankind's four legged friends 

Am I but the sunless sustenance 

Your lonely soul needs

For once you are firmly within my grasp

I will own you for all your remaining

Days and nights

For once you’ve tasted my sweet red liquor

I’ll always own you as long as your light flickers

For I can be the new Adam or old Eve

Forever stalking your own

Gardens of Creation

I've walked through all countries naked

This you better believe 

And my name is often carried upon the wet hungry lips

Of the seduced 

Within every nation

I could be the very glimmer

You need

To survive 

Whilst lost in the darkness

But also the greedy temptation of The 

Almighty Black Sun

The giver of reconciliation of the soul and the knife-edge 

On which you may perpetually balance

Do you know my name yet

I'm simply the two-edged sword bestowed to all living creatures

From so high above

My name is already known to you.

So much happiness in pain 

Within four letters

I've been around forever

Just ask your ancestors as you pray tonight 

And they'll say

Want always appears in the heat of sensual pleasure 

Smiling like a Demi God in the half light

At the thought of 

If she'll be still welcomed home 

Tomorrow night

(C) Copyright John Duffy 

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