love

“if your love is only a will to possess, its not love”

                              Thich Nhat Hanh

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I must have

That job,

That house

That care,

That power

That wealth

That woman, that man

I must have it

It just love it

Not

There is little love there

Want, perhaps

Need, maybe

But mostly lust

Mostly ego

Mostly self

A plundering, rapacious, greedy

Grasping sort of hunger

That merely takes, and devours

That merely destroys

And so there is nothing which remains

Nothing but stinking by products

Created by devouring

And it matters not what you call it

Or whether you guild it with gold

it is not love

not, in the end,

even love of self