Wants and Needs

Wants And Needs Your heart is a porch with a barbed wire fence Armed guards and hounds drawing lines of defense Used to sit there with you and swing life away Now I'm blocked at the street by a wrought iron gate I guess I just expected something more Some words or some effort not present before A reciprocal understanding of lives that we live Of partners and children and the things that we give I thought of you I fought for you I faced the hard truth And took a bruising You can't do the same You won't speak my name Like it's some kind of game We're losing "Wants and needs" my daddy used to say My son, best you not confuse the two But he never mentioned there'd come a day When I realized that both of them are you Forgetting the names Only seems to inspire Sometimes dousing the flames Only strengthens the fire