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I Need You

I need you more than ever.

 

I need you like a forest

        needs rain

 

I need you like a tree

        need roots

 

I need you like a serpent

        needs a sea

 

I need you like a great white heron,

        needs the sky

 

I need you like the ocean

        needs a current

 

I need you like a chainsaw

        needs electricity

 

I need you like a wolf

        needs meat

 

I need you like a temple

        needs prayers

 

I need you like a rapist

        needs power

 

I need you like an infant

        needs a nipple

 

I need you like the mountains

        need valleys

 

I need you like a television

        needs a viewer

 

I need you like a fuck

        needs love

 

I need you like a dream

        needs sleep

 

I need you like thunder

        needs lightning

 

I need you like a spider

        needs a web

 

I need you like a soul

        needs a body

 

I need you like a disease

        needs a host

 

I need you like evil

        needs good

 

I need you like a warning

        needs a cause

 

I need you like blood

        needs a place

 

I need you like a thought

        needs a spark

 

I need you like a breeze

        needs a direction

 

I need you like time

        needs movement

 

I need you like an engine

        needs fuel

 

I need you like a person

        needs a label

 

I need you like a candle

        needs a flame

 

I need you like dust

        needs a plain

 

I need you like a river

        needs a bend

 

I need you like a screw

        needs a nut

 

I need you like Columbus

        needed a map

 

I need you like Warhol

        needed a gun

 

I need you like Dorothy

        needed a home

 

I need you like Gilligan

        needed a boat

 

I need you like Santa

        needs a sleigh

 

I need you like the Bee-Gees

        needs a mirror-ball

 

I need you like Vox

        needs the media

 

I need you like one

        needs destruction

 

I need you like a film

        needs an audience

 

I need you like dinner

        needs a plate

 

I need you like boiling water

        needs heat

 

I need you like a logo

        needs treatment

 

I need you like color

        needs light

 

I need you like peace

        needs war

 

I need you like men

        needs God

 

I need you like religion

        needs followers

 

I need you like a fetus

        needs a womb

 

I need you like a bee

        needs honey

 

I need you like a tongue

        needs a taste

 

I need you like a worshipper

        needs an imagination

 

I don’t need you.

 

 

 

 

© 1998 David Greg Harth

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