For All Those Who Have Not Yet Known Hunger

For All Those Who Have Not Yet Known Hunger

For all those who have not

   yet known hunger

   then let me tell you all this ..

I for one, have

always known hunger since

first being torn

from the comfort of my own

   mother’s womb ..

In fact, it’s a fact, that I have

   always felt hungry ..

Hungry for light and for truth

   and for knowledge

and all with such a thirst for

   my personal gain ..

Indeed, how I ache and I lust

and desire for just

that right amount of perfect

pitched pain you

  always beat your drum about

since we first met,

   all those long and lost years ago ..

But for now, I want to

  make a simple statement of fact ..

And then to set all

   these old records each straight ..

So get this my friend

and once and for all, I don’t want

to climb any magnificent

mountains, or to swim in some

  fucking great lake ..

And nor do I want, to just sit still

and to contemplate

spaces or for that matter those

places, I have only

   ever been to inside my own head ..

Oh yes indeed, I have

   always been this insatiably hungry ..

But until recently,

had lost all my appetite for bread,

   for fruit and for meat ..

Although it is true, I still squat at

  the same table just

marking time and caressing each

one of those pretty,

scented pulses of yours while you

count slow and loud

   dissatisfied, singular, heartbeats ..

Yes those, which seem

to occur somewhere between

your anxiety attacks

   and my solitary bid for true freedom ..