Dehydrated

In every person I know

There's a hunger

A certain thirst

That can never be satiated.

A need

That can never be met.

Some are just mere craving

Others are something more…

I feel like one of those people

But to a higher extreme.

That heart beating

Ever so sullenly before my eyes

Dangling on a string.

So close

So tempting

Yet something keeps me from it.

I want this gift

I feel as if I've never wanted anything

So much.

It's that longing

That hunger

For something I can't have.

I want to feel the steady pulse

Thinking, maybe,

The rhythm can take place

Of the limbs I can't feel anymore.

As I step closer

An alarm sounds in my head

Warning: Danger

And at this point

I don't care.

What do I have to lose?

My only consequence

Would be to finally break away

From this dehydration.

And right now

That is all I want.

An oasis in this desert…

Who would not give in?