hunger lives a passionate paradigm.
hunger, beyond life-giving-food
is passionate desire. It
burns, builds, overwhelms, and consumes.
it rises and motivates to action a
fleeting, beating, heart-racing, pacing,
then is satisfied and
recedes to another time
wasteful, life-eating apathy reigning
before it burns and consumes again.
a hunger is personal, self-absorbed.
too often obsessive.
too often regressive.
I hunger for the NOW.
not for later or tomorrow
I hunger for THIS second
... and now THIS one.
a cool breeze and sunshine
on my face and head.
singing birds and
squeeling baby squirrels,
my keys in hand, and
a good days work ahead of me.
NOW is that
fleeting, beating, heart-racing
satisfying moment.
... and so is THIS one.