DESIRE

Like   pimple  it  comes  out
Like  prickly heat  it   excites  you
We  want  to  possess  all  or  swallow  in
For --our  ignorance  or   ill-health  is  snubbing   us  too
while  our  desires  are   conceived in  your  mammon - will .

Our   Ego's  tentacled  creeping  growth !
It   always  wants  to  engulf    but  shrinks  to  give
Desire --  the  name  of  its   greedy   out-growth
 however  much   we  trim  it , - will  prop up  or  peep
Desire !  --Nature's  Vital  plan   and    ' Bridal  bed-spread' !
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Composed  in 1990-s  and was published  in "Where  Dreams  Begin"  of  The  National  Library  of  poetry, 1993 ;  ISBN 1-56167-039-1. now  edited.