Want Versus Need

The hunger pains of he who needs 
Differs from that of those from he who wants
As he who wants would be deceptive
To gather his food and fight to gain morsels
While he who needs would hunger another day
Just so another would not hunger as he
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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