The Want of You~By Ivan Leonard Wright

"I can't let my mind think of you"...these are thoughts that I'm sure most of us become consumed with from time to time. I thought I'd share this poem, who was shared by a friend, and found in an amazing poetry book from the 1930's, with authors dating back from the 1800's. In instances of love, romance, infatuation, separation and the ever quest for "the one," I would have to say that the ever consuming longing and wanting could cause one to 'Flip yer Lid.' That's why poetry is so wonderful because it conveys feelings and emotions that everyone can relate to, without the directness and profane use of today's language. There is something special, and subtle yet, piercing about the elements of poetry, no matter what topic is being written about.

I know you'll enjoy it and I know you can relate...

The Want of You

The want of you is like no other thing;
It smites my soul with sudden sickening;

It binds my being with a wreath of rue-
This want of you.

It flashes on me with the waking sun;
It creeps upon me when the day is done;
It hammers at my heart the long night through-
This want of you.

It sighs within me with the misting skies;
Oh, all the day within my heart it cries,
Old as your absence, yet each moment new
This want of you.

Mad with demand and aching with despair,
It leaps within my heart and you are-
where?

God has forgotten, or he never knew-
This want of you.

-Ivan Leonard Wright