The Hunger Within

THE HUNGER WITHIN Deep within I feel this hunger So eat, I must, and then no longer Crave for food but grow much stronger Make this hunger ease. But the pangs; the pain, it lingers Although I feast and lick my fingers Food from all the kindly bringers Won’t stop this hunger tease! What to do I now must wonder All the pantries I shall plunder And if it be I make a blunder Will this hunger cease? [ O’ Cupid, ‘Help!’, you Love Factotum Shout “ahoy, Nil Desperandum You’ll starve no more, ad infinitum” Quell this hunger, please! ] True it be I have no lover Just one I want, I want no other If food be this there’s none above her My hunger to appease! (The Fg 81.5.8)