The Want Versus The Need... Poem by Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr

Parallel with a hertz of bandwidth
you pray to soar with eagles-eye,
and so you do...
with confidence like a bull, running,
and blind to the myriad
of nascent chaos...closer and closer,
daring to penetrate silence with clatter
with jejune mindset...'til-

your line mysteriously severs,
time and wealth...insignificant;
and upon your breathless fall,
you begin to pray to gods and serpents
for your eagles eyes to find eagles wings,
yet, to no avail...like it always is,
as it always was and will always be;
such be the difference
'tween Want and Need'.


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Frank James Ryan, Jr./FjR





Above storyline is based on the many mis-values
and priorities that we've all been guilty of in
our lives, until we are sadly awakened to our
true needs when something catastrophic occurs,
something that supersedes all that we foolishly
thought was most important-Until it's too late.