Best Basic Needs Poems
Everything
As
Required
Touch of
Holiness
Bed chair
Table lamp
Touch smell
Thought food
Hidden away, deeply recessed,
From the earliest brain.
Lies the need for survival,
Only meaning to sustain.
The roots seek to feed,
And satisfy the desire.
As water flows throughout,
Heating conflict to fire.
Rarely does the effort allow,
The most passive retreat.
Since the fight is confronting,
The need to compete.
This experience becomes a tutorial,
For all that we've learned.
Where nothing is simply given,
Work demands it be earned.
The observation directs reality,
Beyond the solitary pursuit.
Recognizing partners can be found,
To efficiently recruit.
Such bonds may give to those,
The means to love and procreate.
With family as the basic group,
To look past all the hate.
While the young thirsts to adapt,
The elders mentor to teach.
Passing on what they've observed,
With expressions they can reach.
The exchange between young and old,
Flows both ways, to be sure.
As lessons allow improvement,
Caressing time to endure.
Even though some are elusive,
And difficult to measure.
The risks may balance the pain,
And grant some innate pleasure.
Through all the trials and troubles,
Some ignorance is removed as planned.
As the needs become more simplified,
And mankind begins to understand.
Food, shelter and water
Basic needs of life.
But not enough
For anyone to thrive.
Touch, warmth and love
Better serve the need.
A smile, a hand, a hug
Wouldn’t you agree?
Survival alone
Not enough to feel alive
Shameful so many
Are so deeply deprived.
More important today
A sense of humor is high
On the list of the things
We need to get by.
Expressing ourselves
In creative ways.
Perfect outlets are few
In choices these days.
Friends and family
Love through it all.
They see the need
In the writing on the wall.
833.
Wala Nang Pang-Basic Needs
Nung ako ay tanggalin
Sa CapSU noong 2016
Basic Needs ipinagkait sa'tin
Pambili ng pagkain wala na
Makakain ay pandukha
Sa parents parehong nganga
Pambili ng kasuotan wala na
Maisusuot ay puro luma
Sa parents nalang umaasa
Pambili ng tirahan wala na
Matitirahan ay pangmaralita
Sa parents parin nakikitira
Nang sa CapSU alisin ako
Wala na po
Na Pang-Basic Needs tayo!
-11/06/2022
(Dumarao)
*My Losing CapSU