If It Is Wanted Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

If it is wanted,
First it takes a planting...
For that seed with a wish,
A nourishing of it...
Continues its growth.

If what is wanted with inspired desire,
Felt to know there is no letting go...
Sacrifice and commitment,
Becomes closer than one's pillow.
With little sleep or a need for it to get.

If what is wanted so bad,
The craving of it had stays...
Like a 'puppy' love that dogs the mind.
Found to find one all the time,
Blinded by the hunger.

And if it is wanted,
With a mission to realize it has arrived...
There is no need to flaunt,
That which has come to want.
Since the doing of it has proven,
A wanting with a wish...
Is not impossible to get.