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Need, Want, and Desire

Need, Want, and Desire

For years
I thought
I needed
Her,

But her absence
And abandoning
Behaviors
Eventually
Taught me

Through
Loneliness

That
I really
Didn't
Need her
At all.

I thought
Then
That
I wanted
Her,

But
What good
Was that
When she
Hardly knew
That I
Was alive?

Then
I discovered,
I had
Desired her,

To be near,
To know,
To be
Within
The orbit
Of her being,

And she
Was like
The moon,

A bright
And brilliant
Beacon
In the star flung
Night,

Nothing
To be owned,

But rather
Another thing
Shared
By a hundred
Other eyes.

Not mine
At all.

A shadow
Making angel.
Written by runningturtle87
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Author's Note
Love teaches us to expect nothing.
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