Your Hunger

Ah, your hunger

is so attractive —

the way it pulses

the chords of life’s imperative.

The ready urgency

brings out the wild in you,

edge of aliveness,

the non-negotiable.

And it brings out

the mother in me,

the one whose deepest joy

is to feed you what you need,

to see the frank pleasure

in your receiving it.

To see you satisfied

may be the deepest gift

you give me. So your hunger

makes me crave your presence.

©Wendy Mulhern

October 9, 2013