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Poem · Day 4 of Retreat · Dec 2025

Wanting

Fully feel your heart's wanting. It's the closest thing there is to love.

Fully feel your heart's wanting

It's the closest thing there is to love

Fill yourself with your own longings

Watch it melt you into being

It's scary to see how it is

To let your wantings be

An antidote to disappointment

A cure for expectations

Who is left when your wantings flow

Washing away your flaws

Jealousy, envy, pride, and anger

How wanting twists your thoughts

Wanting can only exist right here

Where nothing can be known

Doubts, fears, worries, and confusion

Can't exist in the unknown

Let your wantings flow beyond all you know

Fully trust your will

To take you exactly where you were willed

Let your heart's wanting finally take you home