Need To Knead

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. - Thoreau

deny me, will i not need

cut me, will i not bleed

convict me, will i not plead

scatter me, i am seed

pray me, i am creed

do something, anything, i am deed

there is great and there is greater

a hole can turn into a crater

to  betray makes one a traitor

to forego is to save it for later

in some places a potato is a tater

now where is that waiter

liberate me, i am freed

take too much, i am greed

don't follow me, i am unable to lead

my thoughts and emotions give birth to poetry but only a brain can read

stubbornly i concede

to make bread is to knead

agreed

Author's Note

"There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long." - Thoreau