Need

This gnawing, clawing, grasping within me.

Why is this need all I'm able to see?

Why in my world does it still exist?

Why must this troublesome desire persist?

Why won't it leave me, disappear, go?

I have all I need, that I know.

Savior of my soul, Writer of my life.

I am yours and You are always here.

But this loneliness stabs, a dull knife.

Why, towards what goal does it steer?

You are everything, but I seem to need more.

I want to be held, but You fill my core.

Free me from this human need.

Let Yourself be enough.

I will go where you lead.

But I am not so tough,

That I cannot need others.

And so more my heart suffers.

This humanity undermines my spirit.

This need destroys my faculties.

Beneath the surface I can hear it.

In my internal war, casualties.

Resolve this violence between two sides,

Of my existence, which in You resides.