poet Eric Cockrell
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What Do We Really Need?

i saw a small boy...
sitting in the dirt,
underneath an old tree,
playing with sticks.
he was making them
talk to each other,
as if they were human...
perfectly content,
with a lot of imagination,
with very few needs.

and it made me stop and think...
what do we really need?

Submitted: Saturday, June 23, 2012

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  • Dave Walker (6/23/2012 5:41:00 PM)

    Really all we need is love, my little daughter likes nothing better than pushing a toy car to me,
    then I push it back to her, she'll sit for hours doing that. A great poem.

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