Sometimes we weep, “I need you so much.”
Do we grieve from the weight of the need?
Or the needing of differing things?
Do we weep that our need’s not provided?
We need.
And need differing things.
And need other than can be provided.
As long as the grief is not shame.
For what harm in need?
Like anything else,
we depend
-in truth-
on a world
made of so many
things –
to exist, to alive,
to continue.
And why not one another?
I am and you are
Without which we are not
That is need,
that is all,
that is fact.
Without air, food or water
the body declines.
Without commerce,
event,
the mind will not thrive.
Without you
what is I
will diminish.
That is nature.
There’s no shame in the needing.
No recall in the fail.
The “meeting” is all –
the approach and response,
the expression of need
and its answer.
Insufficient and varied,
incomplete and alloyed,
is never the fault of the need –
only moment.
“I need you,” I weep,
and I do, it is true,
and the you that is current
needs me.
That is all.
It is fact.
It’s the case.
We can change it, okay.
We can do.
But the need will remain,
because that’s how we are –
dependent by nature
on nature, on world,
on persons and places and things –
on each other.
We’re human, you see?
Altogether be–cause
We BE from the CAUSE
of each other.
I like this a lot. It is reminding me of a book I’m reading by Elizabesth Alexander, The Light of the World.