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A poem for you

A poem for you

Longing is the Great Mystery living through you

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Sehnsucht, Saudade, Yugen, Dérive…every culture has its own word for our “inconsolable longing”
You have a longing
not of this world.

An insatiable curiosity
that pulls you in like 
Luna moth
towards bewitching bulb.

Mistaken, you may have 
called this yearning 
love’s appetite,
ambition’s thirst, 
the belly’s borehole…

But it is, in fact 
a complete emotion,
all unto itself.

It is an inconsolable longing 
that longs to be longed -
and belongs to the greatest 
longing of all…

It is longing that 
can only be cured

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