Clay Young Jr Poet Free verse

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

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