What Do I Want?

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. - Thoreau

i want to ...

suggest without giving any hints

touch the sky without leaving fingerprints

be found innocent without having to plead

sow without scattering seed

get cut without having to bleed

pray without a creed

hear without having to heed

want without need

i want to ...

reproduce without having to breed

have it all without greed

own without a deed

surrender without having to concede

dress without wearing tweed

go fast without speed

scratch without being keyed

and

be read without having to read

Author's Note

"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..." - Thoreau