Need
Crave and crave and hunger and light and the darkness swallows it all.
Hunger insatiable I lie through teeth rotting and screaming a need I have never known.
Lights extinguish one by one they run from me everyone darkness consuming.
I used to want but want is need is must is at all costs. The one I want the one I want I need.
What is want? I only know the need the must the craving that eats me inside out bones ache.
The ache is there the need is gnawing now roaring drowning out the world I used to see.
I have not seen felt heard you all this time it was the roaring in my ears I'm quieting it.
But through the quiet even now I feel the gnawing softer roaring softly.
Pennies
Pennies, twice dropped,
heads up, in my path.
Fat raindrops falling
as I step into my
favorite shop. A new
book I haven’t read
on the first shelf I see. The
girl at the counter smiles,
the gap in her teeth revealing
soft pink inside. I pay for the
book; she sets my change
on the counter. Pennies, heads
up – what luck.