Wants To Needs

Published by Family Friend Poems March 2009 with permission of the Author.

What I want,
it doesn't come by
working hard.
It comes so naturally,
or at is supposed to at least.
I would work so hard,
if only I had it.
But it doesn't help.
It's what everyone else has,
it's so irresistible, but
it should come with a warning label.
It seems close,
so close,
I can smell it,
I can hear it,
I can taste it,
I can even see it, but
I can't touch it.
It's just out of reach.
But it's not for me.
It never has been
never will be.
Maybe to some extent,
but not like that.
But I want it so badly,
it become a necessity.