Hunger

Hunger is the primal drive of the human animal. It is the embodiment of purpose in the physical realm. The manifestation of desire is hunger.
Hunger for food and water and sex at the level of flesh.
Hunger for attention and approval at the level of the emotions.
Hunger for knowledge and novelty at the level of the mind.

If satiation is reached,
the drive dissipates,
and impulse stills.

If long appeased is hunger,
the streams of desire and action turn sluggish
stagnate one by one
and run the risk of coagulation
clogging up their channeling pipes.

"stay hungry. stay foolish"
said Steve Jobs one day.
I see and feel the reasoning
for half of what he said.


Perhaps then once one finds satiation
of a long-held desire
and the lag of force begins to be felt

instead of simply stagnating
and waiting to feel hunger of the same
again
one can look around, pay attention
see what the world is and what it holds
see what one is and what it feels
how it feels
and perhaps find new twinkles and sparkles
subtle, unnoticed before
within our feelings and outside our skin
that can stoke subtler hunger
and continue to lead us further
once more.

Swan

Swan paddles its legs

because he wishes to change his position

to propel against the water

to impel himself.

Propulsion and (waves and ripples)

twin sons born out of

one manifested act.

Each then travels the vast universe

with a life of its own

oblivious to the existence

of his dual object

through which he then exists.

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We act intending to effect

often unaware that our act and intent themselves

are effects of some other source.

May we see causer,

and sourcer,

and deeper.