5.27.2011

Nimoy Poetry Week Day 4

A Precious Lesson

There is a great pleasure
     In wanting

The object of desire
     Seems so perfect
          So useful
          So necessary
You wonder how you
     Ever got along without it
And you know that you must
     Have it now

     Closets full of neglected
          Once-desired objects
          Tell me that
               It was the wanting
               That was important
            
               I have learned
                     A precious lesson

               I have learned
                    To want
                         What I have

1 comment:

Holly Anderson said...

I love this! It just keeps getting better. I say "Being thankful is wanting something even though you already have it." I think that's one of the secrets of life.