Hungry Poem by Leria Hawkins

We stumbled and found each other, hungry
Ravenous for what we'd been denied
Each, too scared of life to live it
Both afraid to 'own' such secret desires

Swooping in, you consumed me, and I you
Unrelenting in our quest to feel and be filled
We pick, pick, picked, until we broke the skin
Leaving us ruined, our souls cold and raw

And though we gorged as if our last meal
There was no substance and we were not appeased
Our yearning grew as our passions waned
And in the absence, our wounds flourished

We raged on, each wielding a sword of silence
Driven on in a fury of self-preservation
Until we were broken and bleeding
Yet hungry still, unsatisfied…

Love it seems, was always the question
But never the answer
We sought only what the other lacked
Neither acknowledging the error of our ways

Whispers…falling sticky sweet from your lips
Are not harbingers of things to come
They're merely fancy…a pie in the sky
No more real than the promise of kisses

And my unending melancholy
Is just a cry for affection's lost or perhaps never known
I'm the squeaky wheel looking for grease
Wearing flattery like a badge of honor

I am not the wildflower you dreamt of, dear
And you are not the white knight I believed in
We are simply two souls, lost and lonely
Captive in a cruel game of grand illusions

We stumbled and found each other, hungry
And where we go from here, I do not know
I only know that I am hungry, you are hungry
And we will one day find our graves, hungry still