watercolor thoughts [completed]

xvii | W A N T

I WANT I WANT I NEED

THIS IS OUR NEVER-ENDING CHANT, 

OUR INSATIABLE THIRST. 

THERE IS A SONG THAT PLAYS 

IN OUR HUMAN HEARTS AND IT IS 

I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT 

but we already have enough, 

we already have what we need, 

but there is this hunger for more,

this unquenchable monster that 

demands more wealth, more money,

more, more, more, more

and the chant continues once more:

I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT 

and once we've received it 

we set our sights for something else

because of ME ME ME ME 

and it starts up again, 

this infinite, endless cycle 

of yearning and trashing and wishing 

and this is our human's song, 

the world's true national anthem, 

this language that every human

can understand and speak ever so fluently;  

this chant, this song, this beautiful music

forever playing the stereo of our hearts: 

I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT 

I NEED.