By Galadrial
Date: 2002 Feb 02
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Say What You like

You do not know
what I feel when you speak
low,
serious
urgent,
do not even guess
what flows from you
cresting over me
and desire want and need
are not even the bare clue
and no,
not even hunger will suffice.
I feel the empty gut of your soul
laid back against your back bone---
craving for so long
that hope is not even a husk
in your heart.
Something barely hidden in you
that you are used to being unseen,
something too long untouched,
that you will not even
give it a name.
But say what you like---
you are afraid of me,
afraid to wallow in my taste---
because I am not a journey.
I am a not a destination.
I am a stopping point,
that will fuel your next progression.
And you feel the pull
know that one taste
might send you ravening,
may fill the empty---
but what will happen
when you feel the hunger again,
after you have known
what it was to be fed
from the apex of an old soul?