What becomes of a desire,
When unsatiated,
When unfulfilled?
Does it remain,
A titillating force,
To drive us onward?
Will it one day wither,
When it becomes clear,
It can never be achieved?
Posted on January 5, 2015, in Poetry and tagged Desire, DoubleU, John White, Poetry. Bookmark the permalink. 40 Comments.
A really interesting piece! I hope that you're keeping well and still writing! 😊
So inspiring. Great words! A really top poem! I like!
Doors are still closed. Loved it! There is comfort in music. Specially when you want to retire from
Eerily enticing!
I cant find you in my reader i have to go check on your post thru my stat
Took a while to fully comprehend your full meaning here. Hurry back, this space has turned into a vo
I love this!! So true :) I have missed your writing, my "reader" doesn't show me the people I follow
Ah yes, the silence With all its traces.. :)
DoubleU = W 
I think, perhaps, it floats on the ether, waiting to dropdown on another passing, dreaming soul.
A great questioning poem.
Thanks, Chris! Desire may be out there floating around waiting to fall on unsuspecting passersby.
I feel if you satisfy it; one day it will return with a stronger hunger because you experienced it.
Is a satisfied desire forever satiated, gone or can it remain or return? You bring up a good question. It’s great to meet you!
Possibly a little of everything. So glad to meet you too!
I am of the school of thought, by Wuthering Heights and Life Experience, until we shed our mortal commitments it shall never be met nor satiated.
Good point. Certain desires likely do carry on with us until we shuffle off this mortal coil. It’s great to meet you!
Good to meet you as well. I avoid those that would insist on certainty of right or wrong answers on such a formidable subject, yet conquered by any man or woman.
Agreed. Some questions can’t be answered and certainly not with the same answer for everyone.
Desire unfulfilled, just haunts you every night, being both a source of restlessness and a source of rest, something you return to again and again. Perhaps if it were fulfilled it wont burn you as much any more, perhaps in its remaining unfulfilled, the thirst for life and something not yet achieved keeps you alive…
Very well said! It’s great to meet you!
ah desire that wonderful rush that keeps us sparkling , well i really do believe that if one focuses on there deepest desire and that desire is not met is slowly dies and can destroy a lot of spark in one,s soul so for me I have learnt to go out and seek something desirous , the word so does not sound right but
seek seek and the next desire will unfold , it can be hard to convince ourselves that the world will offer us more and more wonderful things that we desire and depending on our zest for finding it , our thirst to drink of its fountain again and again can keep us sparkling if you like . Lovely poem and reaches into many memories for me when I probably did not have the remedies I mention now of searching and searching to find my desire . Happy Days to you.
Thank you! If we seek and find the desirable, we can keep that sparkle and that zest.
Beautiful poem! Sometimes, desire can take over our lives. It can kindle a flame that is dangerous to us, but perhaps it is the effort and time we invest to control it that makes us human.
Thanks! Yes it can take over if we can’t control it. It’s great to meet you!
Reblogged this on Mysticism.
Thanks for the reblog!
It withers. Like everything else, it has its end. It may take some time, but Time will have its way.
It sure can. Time and distance can take it away.
Agreed. Distance or absence “makes the heart grow fonder,” but that too has an expiration date.
Reblogged this on shaantamco.
Thank you for the reblog!
Happy New Year!
When I read some of your themes in your poetry I always think of you as someone who is constantly searching for something more…my friend never stop for those who search find and those who knock the door is answered.
God Bless!
Thank you. There is always something more – something to learn, something to achieve, something to improve. I do seek. Always. Life is a journey.
An unfulfilled desire is divine. It is a powerful pointer towards freedom from desire.
It can surely keep us moving forward, if for no other reason, than to fulfill the desire. It’s great to meet you!
I suppose it all depends on how deeply ingrained the desire is. Excellent piece. 🙂
They can surely stay with us. It’s great to meet you!
An unfullfilled desire can be maddening. It can drive us to obsession and insanity. But when we can accept that it is what it is and in life there will be dissapoinments it can be a great learning experience. Like a mirror it will show us deep insights into our own self. Really thought provoking poem 🙂
Very well said! Thank you. It’s great to meet you!
Reblogged this on muaddib012 and commented:
How our hearts yearn for What we desire.
Thanks for the reblog!
no prblem great read.
Great poem, and thank you for visiting my blog as well! Your poems remind me a lot of my own… i feel like you explore the sames ideas i do in very similar ways. 🙂
Thank you! It’s not often we meet minds similar to our own but it’s definitely comforting when we do. It’s great to meet you!
This reminds me of A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes…
Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed it. It’s great to meet you!
As my hair moves a little more each day away from black into into grey-scale I am beginning to think that the desire will never leave me. It has at times been on the edges of me just out of conscious reach. And at others it has been a consuming fire radiating from the center of of being demanding attention, sometimes tyrannical in its demands on me. It has also been at every point in between. It has moved me to both create and destroy. And as I move over the hill I think that in the end it will finally take me to the place it has always hungered to be. But even now like Abraham “I go out not knowing where I go,” and that is beginning to be OK with me. 🙂 Good work.
Thank you. Very well said. It can sure stay with us for as long as we live. It’s great to meet you!