D--E--S--I--R---E

Like pimple it comes out
Like prickly -heat it excites you
you want to possess or swallow in
for , - your ill-health is snubbing you !

Conceived it , -- within thy smaller 'i'
The ego's tentacled exceeding growth
wants to grab all , but shrinks to give
D-E-S-I-R-E , the name of Ego's out-growth

Cut it, anyway,-will prop up head
water it not, to see , ---it is dead .

[published in Where Dreams Begin ,ISBN 1-56i67-o39-1,- U.S.A ( 1993 ).