A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Friday, October 25, 2019

them to want.

We do not want someone
to do
what they don't want
to do. We want them
to want. We want
them to want

When they don't, it's a tear
in our bag, it's a wear
on our sole
a decline
a reject
worth a crying
jag. We want them
to want. We want them

to want.

We don't want ours
to be the control.
We hate the idea,
and we don't want them
to hate the idea.
We want them to love
the idea.

It's no good
if they don't. When they do
it anyway, seeing our need
- this compounds offense.
We didn't want them
to do what they don't

want to do. We want them
to want.

Only when
it is true. Only then
it is true.

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