By ~Harem~
Date: 2001 Aug 19
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[[2001.08.19.18.00.5705]]

Hunger Pains

My hunger for you
lasted almost six months
during which time
you never fed me
not even a bite

No words, no lines
no poems, no rhymes
no e-mails sent
no phone calls spent

I thought you died
or perhaps just lied
when you said, once upon a time
that you loved me

You disappeared
into the night
Without a word
in vanished flight

And so I hungered every day
to taste the words, you used to say
the sweetened lines dipped in honey
Your witty humor, so cute and funny

The hunger pains
grew long and wide
I ached and hurt
so deep inside

For six long months
the growling sound
my churning gut
no food was found

A starving void
the famished nights
the acid burn
of hungers bite

When hunger's growl
is long ignored
The body shuts down
for fuel that's stored

It's Nature's plan
to stay alive
it killed my hunger
so I could survive

I ache no more
No craving burn
Six months of fasting
I no longer churned

And so ends my hunger pain
for you.

~   ~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~

(when an aching, painful hunger is ignored,
it eventually goes away
and the hunger disappears, too)
~ and so it did with you......


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