Desire

Does desire soften with age

Like wood soaked in water

Soften with age

And leave my heart unbothered

To be at one with loss

Stop fighting the current

Give up everything

And then give up some more

But I am a man

Of flesh and bone

I don’t want to lose

Everything I know

Desire withered my heart

Green into gray

Withered my heart

Now into emptiness I sway

Saw what I wanted

Looked at what I had

Didn’t even know

I wanted it that bad

Once you stop wanting

With quiet desperation

Once you stop

The world finally listens

Hears what your heart whispers

Knows what your heart yearns

A river in a fire

Calm as everything else burns

Oh, how you were waiting

Patient as a cancer

Waiting how you were

Calm as everything else burns

Blazing like a forest

Your life this go-around

Moon bone white

Ashes cold upon the ground