longing

Meaning of Hunger

By: the iHope Poet

It is a painful thing to hunger

and long for what is there, just out of reach

To feel the leech

of passion eating away my soul

Waiting for a heart to make me whole. 

Is it a fruitless thing, to hunger?

Sometimes it seems I'll never gain that peace.

The peace that comes 

after satisfying an empty appetite. 

Like feasting, after darkness, on an overbearing light. 

I feel an eagerness to hunger

and understand the limits yet to meet.

To anticipate that fullness

which I cannot grasp or hold,

Perhaps, with all the pain, I want to hunger

Just to know. 

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