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At some time or another in your life,
you will know that you’re unwanted –

– by a friend that moved on.

– by a child that wants to do it on their own.

– by a lover that has outgrown you.

– by a belief that needs more faith than you have in it.

 

and the feeling, at first, is a painful vacancy;
an urgency to cram space
and rearrange a room
that has no furniture in it.

but if you breathe,
and feel yourself
from the inside out
with all the bits and bobbles
you possessed when you were

still

wanted

you may see,
in this precious and unnerving place,
that you have the opportunity

to saturate emptiness

with the version of yourself
that you could not be
while you were busy filling
someone else’s wants of you.

there is no furnishing to better this room.
there is no addition to your ingredient
that would make you taste sweeter
or more complex.

we are all of us wanters and unwanted,
waiting to want and be wanted again,

and though made

whole,

are seldom seen

as such.

Where want has wilted,
I plant seeds of knowing and peace.

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