poetry prompt – AJ's Creative Corner

Prompt: Write About A Thing You Need

Someone told me to write a poem about the thing I need

And all I know are the things I want, things that stem from greed.

Years of a numb kind of drunk

No awareness of a spirit already sunk

Lungs filled with smoke

An empty laugh at a warm joke

The only indulgence I missed

The only discernable mistake

The first name on a long, long list

Was letting you go, allowing it to break.

Gentle brown eyes with a sweet soft guise,

Drenched in spontaneity with an aversion to goodbyes,

Filled to the brim with an endless amount of why’s.

Dark brown eyes with a dark black rim,

Perpetually going out on a limb,

To fill an insatiable thirst for love, for now quenched with the taste of gin.